[houshuang]

Surprised the author didn't mention Quill.js, which works really well with ShareDB, and is fully open source. We've been doing a lot of fun stuff with it - here's a talk I gave recently as a job talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN37rJRmISQ. (It worked, I got hired :)). As a side project, I'm working on a ShareDB backed wiki, where we can use rich text for editing pages, but also other components, like spreadsheets or mindmaps, and everything supports live editing - I think it would be amazing for classrooms, hackathons, any kind of meeting etc. Would love to talk with anyone interested in collaborating. I have been waiting for a few features to complete to make a proper demo video, but this early one shows off some of the ideas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-lU-in3ydc (https://github.com/chili-epfl/FROG)

[nateps]

Thanks for the shoutout! We are actively developing on ShareDB (https://github.com/share/sharedb) and if anyone is really interested in this, please reach out to me (https://github.com/nateps). Also, Lever is looking to hire someone to work full time on our internal + open source frameworks including ShareDB.

[oefrha]

Thanks for ShareDB! Funny thing, I was looking for a self-hosted real-time collaborative editor myself just a week ago, and landed exactly on Quill.js backed by ShareDB. (I also considered SharedDB-backed Monaco, but it doesn’t seem to support OT out of the box, whereas Quill is literally plug and play. Of course one can write a translation layer between Monaco’s change events and OT.)

[nateps]

That's awesome! Let us know how it goes.

[nused]

Enjoyed your demos. Quill.js delta fits nicely with OT (and we do mentioned in https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.01517.pdf).

Here is a Quill.js coediting demo, without using a ShareDB backend: https://codepen.io/dnus/pen/OojaeN

[VvR-Ox]

I like what you've done.

Is the FROG repo you linked the repo of the wiki?

I'm just curious as it doesn't mention anything about it being a wiki in the readme (it's also a bit unclear how/what to use it for from the description).

[houshuang]

Yeah, we need to do a lot around messaging, to be clear - the wiki is in an early prototype and there are known bugs, etc. However if you want to try it out, install the repo (run initial_setup, then npm start server), then go to localhost:3000/wiki/ANYTHING. It will create a new wiki named ANYTHING?login=YOURNAME, and there you are.

Or go to https://icchilisrv3.epfl.ch/wiki/hn/Home?login=YOURNAME to test it immediately. (I added a tiny bit of content).