Ably Spaces: Build collaborative environments in just a few lines of code
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We at Ably have just released Spaces, a product enabling developers to implement Collaborative interactions and work within their applications. Coupling this with Ably's Channels product, you can build a fully interactive feature within your apps. If you're interested and have a usecase you'd appreciate some content on this, feel free to join our Discord, I'd love to have a chat with you. https://discord.gg/jwBPhEZ9g5
My team and I wanted to help developers use Ably’s Pub/Sub Channels to create multiplayer collaboration features for their app. Our first thought was to create impactful educational and onboarding resources.
But after speaking with a lot of developers, both our customers and friends externally, we recognised the need for purpose-built APIs that are optimized exactly for the payload structure, frequency of updates and end user experience uniquely anticipated for each feature.
This means less time spent by developers architecting some of the lower-level but flexible features such as channels, presence and history that we offer.
Thus came a new product “Spaces” — to help developers build collaborative spaces in their apps in just a few lines of code. Right now, it enables four main features — avatar stacks, member locations, live cursors and component locking (my personal favourite)!
Spaces is completely free to try, so please sign up for a developer account and let me know what you think.
We’ll be around to answer any questions but really hope you would check it out and share your feedback.
Thank you! Srushtika