Collaboration

[scarroll32]

Use Typewriter in a collaborative fashion. Initial implementation could be using commercial tools, eg: Firebase, but we should soon support open source backends.

A nice feature would be to indicate where each user is on the page.

[jacwright]

We have a cursor embed to show where the cursor of a friend is as a good start. You can see this being added in a decorator when you run with npm start right now.

We should create a module that provides some API for collaboration, multi-author cursors, the decorator for handling it, etc.

We should provide documentation or guides on creating backends for this, but I feel Typewriter shouldn't do any of that itself. It could be different packages. Typewriter's scope should be limited to exposing methods for receiving changes from elsewhere, but not connection etc.

So a firebase connector, node.js connector and server, etc. are up for building, anyone? 😀

[scarroll32]

I'm currently playing around with Firepad and Codemirror, I'd be happy to set something up based on a fork, once I've got my head around it.

Separately, we could make a PR back to Firepad when the editor is further along, would probably increase visibility.

[jacwright]

That would be great!