Build collaborative Notion-like text editors in minutes
Liveblocks Yjs is a fully managed, highly scalable real‑time data store for Yjs documents. Powered by Yjs, it’s optimized for building collaborative text editors such as Google Docs and Notion.
Hi everyone,
Today, we’re excited to announce Liveblocks Yjs, a fully managed, highly scalable real‑time data store for building collaborative text editors such as Google Docs and Notion.
Yjs is an open-source CRDT framework created by Kevin Jahns that has grown to be the preferred way for developers to build collaborative rich text editors. It comes with powerful features such as multiplayer undo/redo, lazy loading subdocuments, and offline support. And thanks to its incredible community, Yjs already has integrations with the most popular open-source text and code editor frameworks out there: Lexical, Tiptap, Slate, Quill, CodeMirror, Monaco, and more.
The challenge though is that the decentralized nature of Yjs makes it difficult to scale for production applications. Since all updates get stored, Yjs documents tend to get big really fast. Plus, the raw Yjs data requires some heavy engineering lifting to be dealt with.
That’s why we created Liveblocks Yjs, an advanced platform for building, hosting, and scaling rich text editors from development to production applications with millions of users. No configuration or maintenance required.
We can’t wait to see what you create with this. The Liveblocks team and I will be around all day to answer questions! 🙂
About Liveblocks Yjs on Product Hunt
“Build collaborative Notion-like text editors in minutes”
Liveblocks Yjs launched on Product Hunt on September 6th, 2023 and earned 388 upvotes and 89 comments, placing #8 on the daily leaderboard. Liveblocks Yjs is a fully managed, highly scalable real‑time data store for Yjs documents. Powered by Yjs, it’s optimized for building collaborative text editors such as Google Docs and Notion.
On the analytics side, Liveblocks Yjs competes within Text Editors and Developer Tools — topics that collectively have 527.8k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Liveblocks Yjs performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Liveblocks Yjs?
Liveblocks Yjs was hunted by Steven Fabre. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
Steven Fabre