
Liveblocks Has a Free API That Adds Figma-Style Collaboration to Any App
Liveblocks gives you real-time collaboration primitives: live cursors, presence, conflict-free storage, and comments. Build multiplayer experiences like Figma, Notion, and Linear. What Is Liveblocks? Liveblocks provides the infrastructure for collaborative features. Instead of building WebSocket servers and conflict resolution from scratch, use Liveblocks APIs. Quick Start npm install @liveblocks/client @liveblocks/react Setup // liveblocks.config.ts import { createClient } from ' @liveblocks/client ' import { createRoomContext } from ' @liveblocks/react ' const client = createClient ({ publicApiKey : process . env . NEXT_PUBLIC_LIVEBLOCKS_KEY ! }) export const { RoomProvider , useMyPresence , useOthers , useStorage , useMutation } = createRoomContext ( client ) Live Cursors function Cursors () { const others = useOthers () const [ myPresence , updateMyPresence ] = useMyPresence () return ( < div onPointerMove = {( e ) => updateMyPresence ({ cursor : { x : e . clientX , y : e . clientY
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