Smart-Doc

A Collaborative text editor with video chat functionality

This is a Simple yet effective Text collaboration platform where people can type and discuss at the same time - developed by using React , Node , Express and mongoDB

You can find the repo for the Text Editor here

Development

• You need Node & Yarn to start the development environment. Download them here - Node, Yarn.

• Clone the repository and run the following commands

Now open a terminal and run the following commands

cd client
npm install 
yarn start

Collaborative text Editor

• For collaborative feature of text editing we have used the YJS framework. Yjs is a CRDT implementation that exposes its internal data structure as shared types.
• YJS establishes a P2P connection in which users visiting the website can communicate with each other
• It supports many existing rich text editors, offline editing, version snapshots, undo/redo and shared cursors.

For the Text editor we have used Quill

• Quill is a modern rich text editor built for compatibility and extensibility
• It has very useful built in function that makes it very easy to built a text editor
• For the cursor part we have used Quill Cursors so that user sees a different name when collaborating. You can check here