Real-time Collaboration with Operational Transform

This is a slightly different variant of my previous talk that I gave at ElixirConf US.

Ever wondered how you can build something like Google Docs? Using Elixir’s powerful fault-tolerance and concurrency capabilities along with Phoenix’s excellent support for building real-time systems out-of-the-box, these two are all you need to know to build your own real-time collaboration app.

With our experience and learnings building Slab compressed into the talk, the goal is to get you going quickly by choosing the right™️ approach and tools. We’ll also use Operational Transform, a collaboration and consistency architecture to ensure reliability and scalability when coauthoring. Starting with a basic plain-text implementation on the frontend, we’ll also show how to support formatting and more using an advanced editor like Quill.js.

Additional links:

• Live Demo: https://collab.slabdev.com/
• Delta Package: https://github.com/slab/delta-elixir