Real-time collaborative editing with editor.js

[teilzeitgeist]

Hey!

Did someone test to get editor.js work with SwellRT or other solutions to make the editing collaborative?

[oliver-dvorski]

You'd still need to write quite a bit of logic to make these two communicate, no?

[milu2003]

i need it too!

[marcoancona]

I tried to get real-time collaboration with Firebase Real-time Database but editor.js lacks fundamental APIs to get this to work nicely.

In particular, without a mechanism to render only some blocks rather than all, a mechanism to pass metadata to blocks or to make individual blocks read-only, it is very hard.

[milu2003]

I tried to get real-time collaboration with Firebase Real-time Database but editor.js lacks fundamental APIs to get this to work nicely.

In particular, without a mechanism to render only some blocks rather than all, a mechanism to pass metadata to blocks or to make individual blocks read-only, it is very hard.

editorJS didn't think of this from the beginning of design. Multi person real-time collaboration is not only a problem of local rendering, such as how to undo multi person real-time collaboration?

How to compare the differences between the two versions. It is difficult to develop these functions using editorjs. I gave up

How to recover from one version to another is very difficult

[marcoancona]

My idea was to take advantage of the block nature of the underlying data and to prevent editing a block that is being edited by somebody else, by setting it read-only. Conflict resolution should be easier under the constraint that within the same block there should be no conflicts. Undo only for the changes within the block being edited. This should be possible now that blocks have a unique id. On the other hand, for this to work it should be possible for all other blocks to be updated without disrupting the editing experience of the block the user is working on.

[milu2003]

As for what you said about locking a block for editing, I think the user experience is very bad

At the beginning of my project, I used editor to develop it. Later, I didn't support collaboration well enough. Later, I used prosemirror to reconstruct the project. I found that prosemirror did a good job in this aspect. Editor has been abandoned by me.

You can also try tiptap, based on prosemirror：
https://www.tiptap.dev/examples/collaborative-editing#example

I think if real-time collaboration is an important feature of your product, then editorjs is not a better choice, because the design didn't take this into account at the beginning.

[hata6502]

This issue may be related to... #1606

[marcoancona]

Tiptap seems interesting, thanks for the hint @milu2003. Although, I have to say, that I would prefer a block-based editor to build something closer to Notion/Confluence. And editor.js looks good out of the box.

@hata6502 indeed that would help

[milu2003]

Block building is not difficult. My current product is also in the form of block, similar to notion, but it's very easy for me to build with prosemirror, just a little more work. But the high degree of customization of prosemirror made it easier for me to build programs. What you said out of the box is both good and bad. Although it's easy to use, once you want more complex functions, I think your program will be greatly limited.

@marcoancona

[wmonecke]

Have you guys looked at this issue? #1155 Looks promising!

[SavoInfostream]

Any progress update for this feature?

[neSpecc]

Any progress update for this feature?

Yes, we've designed and started implementing it. Here is the first part.

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[SavoInfostream]

Donated.
Keep it going :)