In a recent (abandoned) project, I used Reflect: https://reflect.net/ It was by far the most developer-friendly experience I've had trying to implement collaborative editing. The one thing it didn't have that YJS did was built-in undo/redo. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

Crazy plot twist (last minute edit): As I was about to publish this post I discovered that Replicache is going to be opened sourced in the near future and that its parent company is planning to launch a new sync-engine called "Zero". Here is the official announcement. It reads: "We will be open sourcing Replicache and Reflect. Once Zero is ready, we will encourage users to move." Ironically, Zero seems to be yet... - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

As the Monday began I started reading documentation and looking into the tech I wanted to use. For most of the stack I went with things I know. But for the multiplayer part I had to read up and understand the core concepts behind Replicache. While reading I came across their hosted service Reflect. This was a perfect fit as time was of the essence and I would not have to build my own Replicache backend! It's... - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

The next step to uncovering the root cause was to instrument the underlying code with some additional telemetry. Luckily we already have OpenTelemetry setup in our application, which sends traces to Baselime.io. After adding additional spans to the code we started seeing traces like this:. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

This is a bit late in the game I admit, but better late than never! I figured it could be cool to know how many visitors and rooms I have on this small little project. I went ahead and created an environment for this project on my Baselime account. Baselime is a serverless observability service, recently acquired by CloudFlare! I've used Baselime in a few of my smaller projects now and it's super nice to use. For... - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago