[samwillis]

> Also, is there any way to "squash" the history of changes?

My understanding is that this is one of the areas that Yjs does a little better than Automerge, it has a heavily optimised binary representation that combines consecutive changes into a single action.

Most people (who have looked into it) probably associate Yjs with its editor bindings but it’s brilliant for any type of syncing. I used it for automatic conflict resolution for Pouch/CouchDB, works really well.

On your server question, you can go either way, load the Yjs document on the server to read it or store a json representation of the most resent state along side it. Personally I would go for the latter as it give you flexibility.

There are two implementations of Yjs, the JavaScript one and a newer Rust one which will have binding for other languages. Last I looked the Rust one was still a work in progress but that was a few months ago. It will provide great support for Yjs on the server side once it complete.