About This Project

Educational Purpose

This collaborative text editor is an educational project designed to demonstrate the challenges and solutions involved in building real-time collaborative applications. It showcases how multiple users can edit the same document simultaneously while maintaining consistency.

Key Technologies

• Next.js 16 with React 19 for the frontend
• WebSocket protocol for real-time communication
• Operational Transformation for conflict resolution
• TypeScript for type safety
• Tailwind CSS for styling

How It Works

When you edit the document, your changes are sent to the server in real-time. The server applies operational transformation rules to handle conflicts with simultaneous edits from other users. All connected clients receive the transformed operations, ensuring everyone sees the same final document state. User cursors and typing indicators provide additional context about who is editing where.