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Liveblocks Has a Free API: Add Real-Time Collaboration to Any App in Minutes

Liveblocks Has a Free API: Add Real-Time Collaboration to Any App in Minutes

via Dev.to ReactAlex Spinov

Building real-time collaboration from scratch takes months. Liveblocks adds it to your React app in an afternoon. What Is Liveblocks? Liveblocks provides real-time collaboration infrastructure: presence (cursors, avatars), storage (shared state), comments, and notifications. Think Figma's multiplayer — as an API. Live Cursors (5 Minutes) import { useMyPresence , useOthers } from " @liveblocks/react " function Cursors () { const [ myPresence , updateMyPresence ] = useMyPresence () const others = useOthers () return ( < div onPointerMove = {( e ) => updateMyPresence ({ cursor : { x : e . clientX , y : e . clientY } })} > { others . map (({ connectionId , presence }) => ( presence . cursor && ( < div key = { connectionId } style = {{ position : " absolute " , left : presence . cursor . x , top : presence . cursor . y , }} > 🔵 < /div > ) ))} < /div > ) } Every user sees everyone else's cursor in real-time. 5 minutes of code. Shared Storage import { useMutation , useStorage } from " @livebl

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