Does convex work with collaborative editing?
So I was considering building a collaborative editing, ideally what something like liveblocks provides. Since you have an option for optimistic update, I am curious if you folks have done similar demo before and what is your approach with conflict resolution.
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hi! i'm curious if you mean specifically collaborative text editing. I don't think we have a demo of that -- our position (for now, we may take a firmer position later) is that every convex mutation runs as an isolated transaction with arbitrary JS code, so you can implement conflict resolution however you see fit. this is a cool idea and we should make a demo.
if you'd like a demo of real time collaborative drawing, check out https://github.com/ldanilek/tldraw-convex which @sujayakar wrote to be https://www.tldraw.com/ backed by Convex.
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thanks for the demo! and yea I was referring to the doc editing initially, I was curious to know what is the best way for combining CRDT and convex and that would be really cool
Our good friend @RJ wrote something like this on Convex a while ago. https://discord.com/channels/1019350475847499849/1035957931579027516/1035958130699407411
Hi yes! @whoami if you decide to try that yourself with ProseMirror (also works just as well with anything based on ProseMirror, like Tiptap), let me know and I'll be happy to help you get it working if I can!
Hey RJ, yea I am working with tiptap, I am reading your code https://github.com/rjdellecese/prosemirror-collab-convex to get some inspirations, do you get it working eventually as expected?
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I did, yeah. It looks like my project's site is still up, so you can try it yourself if you'd like at https://scroll.ink
I'm actually not sure I shared that here, so Convex folks feel free to play around with it too!
(open two tabs side-by-side to see the collab editing in action)
And you can use markdown styling and things like
Ctrl/Cmd-B etc. for keyboard-driven styling
And to clarify, that project is not deployed from the code in that public repo linked abovethis is awesome! thanks for sharing it!
No problem! 🙂
Scroll is featured here for future folks: https://discord.com/channels/1019350475847499849/1153069931487830117/1153069931487830117