Automerge: JSON-like data structure for building collaborative apps
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HN comment orderWow! I really, really like this because the goal appears to be to expose CRDTs in a developer-friendly way. I truly believe that well-designed CRDTs are the future for a lot of distributed systems problems, but they've been a bit hard to get into for people who just want to solve problems and not read 10 papers first. The only thing I miss here is a clear spec of the CRDT itself so that people could implement compatible versions in…
If you are interested in CRDTs, take a look at Yjs[0] by Kevin Jahns too, it has bindings for the most popular rich text editors but is also brilliant for general data syncing too. It seems to to more performant than Automerge [1]. For an example of using it for shared state take a look at SyncedStore. [2][3]. I think Yjs probably has more potential than Automerge, the community around it is incredible. They have created an Open Collective to…
great project. By the way the team at Automerge is also doing a great job building a Rust version of the library. https://github.com/automerge/automerge-rs
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-02-05 | Automerge: JSON-like data structure for building collaborative appsFirst breakout · Best thread | goblin89 | 409 | 98 |
| 2019-05-25 | Automerge JavaScript | spiffytech | 2 | 0 |
| 2020-03-09 | Automerge | throwaway3157 | 4 | 0 |
| 2020-10-15 | Automerge: A library [..] for building collaborative applications in JavaScript | gjvc | 2 | 1 |
| 2021-06-10 | A JSON-like data structure (a CRDT) that can be modified concurrently | tilt | 3 | 0 |
| 2021-07-03 | JavaScript data structure that can be edited concurrently, merged automatically | eatonphil | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-10-03 | Automerge: A JSON-like CRDT that can be modified concurrently and merged again | misterdata | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-12-10 | Automerge: Library of data structures for collaborative apps in JavasScript | thunderbong | 4 | 0 |
| 2022-02-21 | Automerge: A JSON-like data structure (a CRDT) that can be modified concurrentlyHall induction · Latest 20+ point return | yamrzou | 274 | 69 |
| 2024-02-19 | Automerge CRDT | gtirloni | 4 | 0 |
| 2024-12-12 | Automerge: JSON-like data structure for building collaborative apps | kykeonaut | 3 | 0 |