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Has anyone used Yjs in practice? I've tried recently but the docs seem terribly unfinished sadly. And their lacking examples of how to use it for another purpose (other than text editing).

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Yjs is being quite heavily used in the industry[1], and being researched by even more companies. There are also demos showing how to integrate it with an existing rich text editors[2]. If you have some ideas about the missing parts, you could also open topic on discuss.yjs.dev - the documentation page (https://docs.yjs.dev) has tons of useful links thou.

Re. other purpose projects - Yjs/Yrs main target are sequential data structures (text, arrays), but it also has support for maps and xml-like elements. In general you can build most data structures with it. I agree that it would be nice to have some other applications in demos though.

[1] https://docs.yjs.dev/yjs-in-the-wild [2] https://github.com/yjs/yjs-demos

check out https://tiptap.dev/hocuspocus if you want to have a simple and plug and play option for text editor

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