Approach to Create Real-Time Collaborative editor
- Initialize a new node.js project, install express and set up basic express server
- Install socket.io for real time communication
- Use socket.io event listeners to handle all connection and disconnection
- Whenever there is any change in real time editor by client, broadcast it to all other clients
- Implement event handlers to broadcast formatting changes to all the clients
- Set up the new react app (steps are given below in this article)
- Install socket-io.client to connect with the server made using socket.io
- Implement a UI containing textarea and buttons for formatting and style
- Use event handlers to manage the content updation in the editor
- Wait for any updates from server and change the editor content accordingly
- Update the styles of the editor based on the changes received from the server
Real-Time Collaborative Editing App using React & WebSockets
This article will explain about real-time collaborative editor which can be updated by multiple users at the same time. It explains how to do it using a web socket for example – socket.io and react hooks such as useState() and useEffect().
Output Preview: Let us have a look at how the final output will look like.
OUTPUT PREVIEW IMAGE OF COLLABORATIVE EDITOR