perfect-freehand VS liveblocks

The library Canva use for drawing lines may be of interest: https://github.com/steveruizok/perfect-freehand

Sorry to hijack this post, but I do habe a similar problem especially regarding the options for smoothing and streamline options. I think those features give me an annoying delay when drawing so I want to tweak them. If Im not mistaken excalidraw is based on perfect freehand and Changing those settings in their web app helps with input delay. Unfortunately these options are not documented in excalidraw (not even in those Videos) and i cant figure out what to change to affect these options. Any tips?

It is here https://github.com/steveruizok/perfect-freehand

It's all in the title. I've been trying to find an answer for hours now. I want the program to be able to recognise the pressure applied and produce a stroke using that info, kinda like perfect freehand but with python. Can anyone help?

Hi everyone. This is a component for drawing perfect pressure-sensitive freehand lines using perfect-freehand and Skia renderer. It's my first published RN module.

No drawings are made with SVG. Under the hood, I used this library https://github.com/steveruizok/perfect-freehand

Thanks! For the pressure sensitive lines, I’m using another open source library that I made called perfect-freehand: https://github.com/steveruizok/perfect-freehand

Yep, I'm a big fan of Excalidraw and am a contributor there too. I also re-implemented the pen tool in Excalidraw to use my digital ink library, perfect freehand (https://github.com/steveruizok/perfect-freehand), which is used extensively in tldraw.

tldraw is a separate project. The big difference is that Excalidraw renders to HTML canvas while tldraw renders to a regular DOM tree. There's a trade off: canvas can have better performance on some machines, while my approach with tldraw makes it easier to implement more complex embedded content. I wouldn't expect any changes, so use whichever you prefer!

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.