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Chris Nicholas
@chrisnicholas.dev

Liveblocks is going open-source! Today we've opened up the sync engine server that powers Liveblocks Storage and Yjs on our platform. We've also built a local dev server for testing your @liveblocks.io app locally, try it in your app now: $ npx liveblocks dev

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Chris Nicholas
@chrisnicholas.dev

You need to make a couple edits to your app to connect to the dev server, but we provide an AI prompt that will make all these changes for you, setting up an environment variable toggle. You can use this to set up automated CI or E2E testing.

Chris Nicholas
@chrisnicholas.dev

In future, we'll be opening up even more of our product—Comments, Notifications, AI Agents. The dev server doesn't support these yet, but they will be coming. Very excited to see where this goes! Learn more in our blog post. lblcks.io/nys2qqB

lblcks.ioOpen sourcing the Liveblocks sync engine and dev server | Liveblocks blogWe’ve open sourced our server stack. Starting today, you can run and test your multiplayer applications with a Liveblocks server locally.