Real Time Editing with Sockets, Node and Redis
In Real-time Collaborative Editing with Web Sockets, Node.js & Redis Lakshan Perera discusses realie, a real-time editor built with web sockets, Node, and Redis. To understand the concept, check out Etherpad.
There’s a video preview of the project:
Lakshan discusses the reasoning behind using Node in his post, and points out why Node is a good choice for this type of project. He also mentions google-diff-match-patch — the diff library he’s using, which is available for JavaScript.
