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Steven Fabre

Liveblocks Yjs - Build collaborative Notion-like text editors in minutes

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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.

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Steven Fabre
Liveblocks
Maker
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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! 🙂
Antoni Kozelski
Evryface
@stevenfabre Congrats on releasing Liveblocks Yjs.🎉 It's like you've built a big city of text editors👍 that require no customization and no work to maintain, even though millions of people use them. Good job!
Steven Fabre
Liveblocks
Maker
@antonikozelski Thanks, that's a good analogy — can't wait to see what you build with Liveblocks Yjs.
Ibrahim Ennafaa
@stevenfabre impressive! Congrats buddy! And bravo to the team 👏
Steven Fabre
Liveblocks
Maker
@ibrahimennafaa thanks Ibrahim!
Henning Kuich
@stevenfabre Love the integration with existing editors, especially Monaco - only a matter of time before we want to use it to build! Well done!
Liveblocks Yjs seems like a powerful solution for real-time collaborative editing! 🚀 How does it handle synchronization and conflicts when multiple users are editing simultaneously? And can it be integrated into existing applications easily?
Chris
Liveblocks
Maker
@ricardo_luz Thanks Ricardo! By design, it's really easy to add Liveblocks Yjs to your existing text or code editor. We have some getting started guides for various editors which are just a few short steps → https://liveblocks.io/docs/get-s... All conflict resolution and synchronization is handled automatically!
Samet Ozkale
Congrats for launch 🎉
Chris
Liveblocks
Maker
@sairaneibade Thank you Samet!
Adrien Gaudon
Liveblocks
@sairaneibade Thank you Samet! You already know it, but can't wait to try roadmape.com! Bringing collaboration to the product management world is going to be a game changer!
Jirka Třečák
Supernova.io
Absolutely massive deal for anyone building live features into their products. Combine that with a great developer experience out of the box and even a beginner can build the next Figma over the weekend - I have personally built some spectacular things with it that were simply impossible before due to taking too long - and I'm always happy when I get to build more with new fancy toys. Finally, an amazing team led by amazing @stevenfabre - can't wait what innovation you'll bring going forward, stay awesome and true to your goal <3
Steven Fabre
Liveblocks
Maker
@jirka_trecak Thank you! Excited to see what you build with this.
Adrien Gaudon
Liveblocks
@stevenfabre @jirka_trecak 💯 ☝️ Thanks for the kind words, I'm happy you enjoy it. Can't wait to see Supernova.io using Liveblocks! You really have an awesome product
Chris
Liveblocks
Maker
Hey everyone, I'll be around to answer any questions this morning! We're really excited to share this with the world, we've put a lot of effort into building an awesome tool.
Niklas Olsson
This is great, next level simple. Congrats team! You continue to raise the bar 🤝
Chris
Liveblocks
Maker
@niklas_olsson1 Thanks Niklas—I can't wait to see what people build with it!
Steven Fabre
Liveblocks
Maker
@niklas_olsson1 Niklas! Thanks for the continuous support, excited for you to try out Liveblocks for your next company!
Andrey Vinitsky
Graphy
This looks awesome! Congrats on launching it, team. What's next on your roadmap for Yjs?
Steven Fabre
Liveblocks
Maker
@andreyv Thanks! Subdocuments and also adding support for Yjs in our DevTools to help developers build and debug the Yjs experiences they're building. Really excited about those two things!
Andrey Vinitsky
Graphy
@stevenfabre super exciting!
Adrien Gaudon
Liveblocks
@andreyv Like @stevenfabre said ☝️ But my question to you is: what would YOU need on our roadmap @andreyv ?
Andrey Vinitsky
Graphy
@stevenfabre @adrien_gaudon I'm already sold, just very excited and looking forward to what's next 🙂
Oliver Juhl
Medusa
This is awesome - huge congrats, Steven and team 🚢
Chris
Liveblocks
Maker
@oliver_juhl Thanks Oliver, we're overjoyed to share this at last!
Steven Fabre
Liveblocks
Maker
@oliver_juhl Thanks Oliver! Big fan of Medusa over here :)
Felix Martinez
Congrats @stevenfabre and team Liveblocks!!
Chris
Liveblocks
Maker
Valentin Haarscher
Congrats team !!
Chris
Liveblocks
Maker
@valentin_haarscher Thanks Valentin, super excited about it!
Steven Fabre
Liveblocks
Maker
@valentin_haarscher Thank you Valentin! Excited for your next launch!
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