Moment.dev explains why they rejected the popular Yjs library for collaborative editing, arguing it's unsuitable for both offline and live collaboration due to document corruption issues. They present a simpler alternative solution that achieves similar functionality without CRDTs in just 40 lines of code, while maintaining optimistic updates and network resilience.
Background
Collaborative editing libraries like Yjs use Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs) to enable real-time synchronization, but they can produce unexpected merge results that corrupt documents during conflicts.
- Source
- Lobsters
- Published
- Mar 15, 2026 at 02:22 AM
- Score
- 7.0 / 10