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Vitest extension does not share with live share

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript, vscode

Research direction

No source file or test is identified in the issue. First reproduce the missing test controls and output as a guest using the listed Live Share steps; done means guests can view and run tests and see their output in the shared session.

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Description

pending triage
Describe the bug

I cannot view or run tests as a guest in a live share session

Reproduction

Reproduction steps:

  1. Install test explorer live share and live share extensions
  2. Start a live share session
  3. Open the link in a browser which should open a local live share session
  4. “Trust” the workspace
  5. You will not see any buttons on the guest live share to run the tests or see any test output
System Info
macOS / vscode
Used Package Manager

npm

Validations
Dominant language
TypeScript
Stars
931
Forks
124
Avg merge
16h 20m
Merged PRs (30d)
6

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