Live Lens for Visual Studio Code

Live Lens gives you a realtime preview of your web projects without ever leaving vscode.

📑 Table of Contents
Features
- ⚡ Instant Preview → Live local server for Web(HTML/CSS/JS) projects
- 🌍 Browser or Inline Panel → choose your preview mode
- 🔄 Auto Reload → updates instantly when files change
- 🔌 Customizable Port → default
5500 , can be changed in settings
- 🖥️ Seamless Integration → status bar toggle + start/stop commands
Screenshots



Settings
LiveLens adds settings to customize preview behavior:
{
"livelens.mode": "browser", // "browser" | "inline"
"livelens.port": 5500 // server port number
}
Setting |
Type |
Default |
Description |
mode |
string |
"inline" |
Choose preview mode: "browser" opens in external browser, "inline" opens in VS Code webview. |
port |
number |
5500 |
Port number for the local preview server. |
Installation
- Open the Extensions panel in Visual Studio Code
Ctrl+Shift+X (Windows/Linux)
Cmd+Shift+X (macOS)
- Search for Live Lens.
- Install.
👉 Install from Visual Studio Code Marketplace
Contribute
Want to improve Live Lens? Contributions are welcome!
License
This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. See the LICENSE file for details.
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