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We shipped a Yjs alternative for collaborative text editing! LiveText is a new data type for @liveblocks.io. It's quicker, simpler, and smaller than a CRDT, and integrates into four popular text editors. And there's more ↓

Because LiveText is a conflict-free type like LiveObject and LiveList, you can use it directly in your Storage tree too. You can create a whole multiplayer data tree, and nest your LiveText content fields inside it.

You can even edit text from the server, so your AI agents can write into documents in realtime. Use `mutateStorage` in Node.js, or JSON Patch operations via REST API.

And unlike Yjs, there are no tombstones, so documents never grow over time. A doc edited daily for years loads as fast as one written yesterday. Your text is plain, readable data too, with no binary types to handle.