lunchplanner VS liveblocks

https://github.com/egeozcan/lunchplanner

I was having so much fun back then with this one. Meteor.js was a blast of productivity and I apparently couldn't have cared less about code quality. This is not embarrassing, there's no perfect code and we make different trade-offs all the time, not to mention the skill difference between you and your past self.

Too long ago, I had written a lunch-planner as a joke to mock how much time we were losing by discussing what to eat at the office (and it even was used in a non-sarcastic way, to my own amazement), and I used meteor because it just worked.

2 years ago I said, I wonder if it works still, and I installed meteor, did an update and voila! It worked, just million times faster to build and much more responsive: https://github.com/egeozcan/lunchplanner/commit/91541a637531...

Even the built-in account system still works!!

Of course, it's not a serious project but I'm just very positively surprised how great of a DX Meteor has.

Absolutely! The real complexity comes from conflict resolution. If someone edits the top, and someone else edits the bottom, which version do you go with? What if they're editing the same area? Entire companies exist to provide elegant solutions to this[0], so it's no simple task.

0: https://liveblocks.io/

I can imagine, browser extensions are a pain in the butt. Are you planning to open source the code? Did you build everything by yourself or on top of https://liveblocks.io/?

For the following example, I want the gradient color to flow from "Hello World" to the "Circle", so they are synchros and match the colors. I created this snippet but I'm having trouble with the rest. https://play.tailwindcss.com/accHTivCcx. Another example would be the https://liveblocks.io/'s title, which flows through the colors in the gradient. How would I achieve this?

Does anyone have any opinions about using Liveblocks for a live collaboration application as opposed to just using Firebase?

liveblocks is great for multiplayer state sync. i was able to make my canvas redux app collaborative in a couple of hours https://liveblocks.io

Very cool use case for CRDTs! I've seen a bunch of different use cases from other products like https://liveblocks.io/ and https://electric-sql.com/. It's interesting how CRDTs are now taking hold so much for all these collaborative syncing scenarios. Wonder what's driving the proliferation now given they've been around for awhile?

Hi Tim,

I'm a bit biased but https://liveblocks.io is great for that :)

If you know how to use React, that's pretty much all you need to know. It also includes some nice hooks to enable things like multiplayer undo/redo and live cursors.

The team even put a couple of interactive blog posts about that that you might find interesting:

True! I would also include https://liveblocks.io to that list of services that help developers make multiplayer experiences.

Interesting to see more players in this space to help more and more developers do this.