automerge VS rustpad

I'm not aware of any usable CRDT implementations for Dart, my plan is to use the flutter_rust_bridge to make use of automerge v2, which is a full CRDT implementation written in Rust that has the advantage of having a very simple API to work with (basically a key/value store).

Yes. I asked the devs about ideas for this in this ticket and got an interesting response. It's aimed towards server-side handling, but the same ideas apply to local storage as well.

There are a lot of implementations of CRDTs out there. In JavaScript, for instance, we have Y.js (https://github.com/yjs/yjs) and automerge (https://github.com/automerge/automerge). There’s also a Y.js demo (https://demos.yjs.dev/prosemirror/prosemirror.html) that allows you to play around with them and have your own collaborative app running in just a few seconds. All messages are exchange via webRTC and manages the state via CRDTs. This can be a great sandbox to understand how CRDTs work and see.

Anyone unsure of what a CRDT is, this is the perfect intro: https://www.inkandswitch.com/peritext/

The two most widely used CRDT implementations (combining JSON like general purpose types and rich text editing types) are:

- Automerge https://github.com/automerge/automerge

- Yjs https://github.com/yjs/yjs

For instance, practicing "local first web" using automerge with all it's Distributed Persistence Primitives on CRDT's and Vector Clocks - i.e. when the Browser View is treated like a Database replica, essentially; or adopting a real data mapper that's giving you an API from your database Schema, using Prisma or Hasura... or even implementing a custom codegenereted one, as a babel plugin, on top of TSED and Micro-ORM.

Take a look at https://github.com/ekzhang/rustpad

I'm looking for software similar to https://rustpad.io but with login and password. Docker would be nice :)

You could try rustpad

Looks pretty similar to https://rustpad.io/

Awesome! I requested this in rustpad but it was closed with wontfix. I suppose it is out of scope of rustpad but I'm really glad to see that there's this project to add it.

Just adding an example to the other side, I wrote https://rustpad.io/ in Rust, which is a collaborative text editor that uses WebSockets and resolves edit conflicts in real time using an operational transformation algorithm. It's a fairly complex bit of logic. But I actually thought Rust was the best language for this application because of performance, data race-safety, Serde, and the borrow checker. (My second choice would have been Go with stress tests run under `the -race flag.)