Electron desktop app about multihack-web HOT 6 CLOSED

I agree. Being able to sync through the filesystem would be useful. It might work better as a Node.js tool though, to avoid Electron's overhead.

The only problem with this is that most editors use their internal memory to edit files, meaning changes aren't pushed immediately to the filesystem. So it wouldn't be able to replace the editor plugins.

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Awesome Idea man!
I thought about it, you could run child process to sync between y-js and file system.
Then it is okay the editor use memory cause delta will goes to y-js.
It might have little delay on sync file system, though.

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Thank you guys!

I guess it will be a problem to cleverly match external and internal changes with the data model, perhaps an WebRTC enabled "merge driver" for Visual Studio Code would be better?

Otherwise, maybe the desktop app could do a diff between local changes (saves) and treat each changed snippet as an individual edit - as if they were performed offline? Then external/incoming changes could be merged with this and applied to the local file system - right after the user has flushed his editor buffer (saved his work).

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I plan to fully support vscode, which is in the works. multihack-vscode

The dekstop app would have to work like that, doing it's own diffing when the user saves (with a filesystem watcher). We won't need to worry about merging, YJS does that for us!

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Excellent, sounds very promising!

And this YJS library also looks like a great tool in lots of cases, I guess it could be used for "collaborative stream scribbling" as well 👍

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Repo created as https://github.com/RationalCoding/multihack-cli

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