PeerPad
Released under MIT, PeerPad provides online editor with real-time collaboration using CRDTs and IPFS on self-hosted infrastructure.
Overview
📝 Online editor providing collaborative editing in really real-time using CRDTs and IPFS. PeerPad is a decentralized editor that allows concurrent writing of text. Besides making live changes to a given document, it allows read-only nodes to follow the changes in real-time. It also allows you to publish a self-contained snapshot of the document to IPFS. The project has 690 GitHub stars and is licensed under MIT.
Getting Started
Source: GitHub README
git clone https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/peer-pad.git
cd peer-pad
npm installNormalized Features
Source: tool-features-normalized.json
npm.
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