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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 ↓

Tiptap, BlockNote, ProseMirror, and CodeMirror are supported at launch, and more may come later. Each editor just needs a simple extension to add collaboration, like Tiptap below, and you can even render multiple documents in the same room.

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.

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.