Show HN: Rustpad, a self-hosted online collaborative text editor in Rust

• rustpad

  23 3,054 0.0 Rust

  Efficient and minimal collaborative code editor, self-hosted, no database required

FYI, https://rustpad.io breaks the back button by updating the location to a new document. Use location.replace() https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Location/re... or history.replaceState() https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/History/rep... to avoid that, instead of assigning to window.location.hash.

• ot.js

  2 2,019 0.0 JavaScript
  

Thanks! Operational transformation is the same technology that powers Google Docs. It's been studied in academia for real-time collaboration since the 1990s and has eventual consistency guarantees. See the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_transformation

The Rust operational-transform library was not written by me, but it's listed on crates.io by spebern, and it's worked wonderfully so far. It seems to be a very close port of ot.js (https://github.com/Operational-Transformation/ot.js). The text transformation algorithm isn't very complicated (<700 SLOC including tests), but there's probably room for optimization!

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