• CRDTs kind of throw all of that out the window and embrace the eventual nature of the real world.

  • thrownness

• we trade linearizability for a property called strong eventual consistency:

• math.commutative

  • order does not matther
  • 2+3=3+2=5

• math.idempotent

tools

• https://github.com/automerge/automerge-rs
• https://github.com/yjs/yjs/
• https://github.com/loro-dev/crdt-richtext
• https://loro.dev/

References

• https://github.com/jlongster/crdt-example-app

• https://github.com/clintharris/crdt-example-app_annotated

• Peritext: A CRDT for Rich-Text Collaboration

• SyncedStore is a library for building distributed, real-time collaborative web applications that sync automatically.

• Syncing text files between browser and disk using Yjs and the File System Access API

• operational-transformation

• local-first

• dotJS 2019 - James Long - CRDTs for Mortals

• Are CRDTs suitable for shared editing?

• CRDTs: Part 1

• CRDT Resources • Conflict-free Replicated Data Types

• Building a BFT JSON CRDT

• jackyzha0/bft-json-crdt: 🏰 the first JSON-like Byzantine Fault Tolerant CRDT

• jackyzha0/portal: 🔗 zero-config peer-to-peer encrypted live folder syncing that respects your .gitignore

• jackyzha0/miniraft: 🚣‍♀️ <1kloc, well-documented Raft consensus algorithm implementation

• jackyzha0/cursor-chat: 💬 cursor chat à la Figma for digital co-existing + presence

• How CRDTs make multiplayer text editing part of Zed's DNA - Zed Blog

• crdt-richtext: Rust implementation of Peritext and Fugue

• Simplifying CRDTs for Local-First Software

• About CRDTs • Conflict-free Replicated Data Types

• A Gentle Introduction to CRDTs – vlcn.io