js-crdt

Introduction

Real time collaboration is a fascinating concept. Main purpose of this libriary it to explore applications of data structure called CRDT in context of real time collaboration and learn answers to questions like:

• How to write collaborative applications?
• How to ensure strong eventual consistency?
• What are limirations of CRDTs?

CRDT stands for Conflict-free Replication Data Type in JavaScript.

Components

Compoents that can be found in this libriary:

• Data structures like Immutable SortedSet, Immutable Lists, Immutable Maps
• Partial ordering algorithms like Vector clock
• Higher order component text that encapsulates operation on plain text that can be used in collaborative editing.

Applications

• https://github.com/widmogrod/notepad-app - Collaborative notepad app (demo).

Development

Basic development requires at least nodejs@8.

To quickly start developmen run:

npm install
npm test

Before pull request run following commands to ensure code quality:

npm test
npm run lint
npm run dist