Decentralized Real-Time Collaborative Documents - Conflict-free editing in the browser using js-ipfs and CRDTs
An distributed application that allows for several users to edit the same document at the same time, something similar to Google Docs, but without any coordinating server.
IPFS stands for Interplanetary File System, and is much more than a file system. It’s an entire network stack for the decentralized and peer-to-peer web, allowing you to build truly serverless web applications.
Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types provides a conflict-free manner of replicating data across multiple nodes without ever having to elect a leader or use another type of centralized authority to reach consensus.
The project uses js-ipfs, which is a Javascript implementation of IPFS that works in Node.js and in a modern browser.
A text editor that requires no server but yet, allows several users to edit it in a collaborative fashion. We can call it “google docs without google for plain text”.