How Y-Sweet Works
Y-Sweet is a suite of open-source tools for building realtime collaborative applications. The core purpose of Y-Sweet is to make document editing collaborative.
What is a document?
A document can be anything – a whiteboard, text document, etc.
In the past, documents like whiteboards and text documents, were typically single player – meaning only one person could edit a document at a time. This is because deploying your own websocket servers and writing conflict resolution logic was tedious and time consuming.
Y-Sweet is built to make realtime collaboration painless and efficient.
The Open Source Y-Sweet Server
The open source y-sweet server (opens in a new tab) gives you everything you need for realtime collaboration out of the box:
- Sync the latest version of a document in realtime across users
- Resolve conflicts using Yjs (opens in a new tab), the industry-standard for CRDTs (Conflict-free Replication Data Types).
- Persist documents to S3-compatible storage
- Control who has access read and write documents
The Cloud
If you were to use the open source y-sweet server alone, you would still have to set up the infrastructure for self hosting it.
Our cloud service allows you use a y-sweet server, no setup needed.
Build collaborative features without managing your own server. Our Javascript SDK allows you creating and access documents. Use our React Hooks to power conflict-free edits to a document.
All you need is a connection string to get started. You can get a connection string from the y-sweet dashboard (opens in a new tab) and go through the quickstart to get an example app up and running.