Open Source Hangout using WebRTC with collaborative editing

#1

Post by captn3m0 » Wed, Mar 06, 2013, 2:21 PM UTC

Open Source Hangout using WebRTC with collaborative editing
hackview.sdslabs.co.in

Re: Open Source Hangout using WebRTC with collaborative editing

#2

Post by captn3m0 » Wed, Mar 06, 2013, 2:22 PM UTC

This was the winning entry for the Yahoo IIT-D Hackathon last year (Aug). Source code is available at https://github.com/sdslabs/hackview/

Re: Open Source Hangout using WebRTC with collaborative editing

#3

Post by rushil92 » Wed, Mar 06, 2013, 2:29 PM UTC

captn3m0 wrote: post #2

This was the winning entry for the Yahoo IIT-D Hackathon last year (Aug). Source code is available at https://github.com/sdslabs/hackview/

Nice!

Re: Open Source Hangout using WebRTC with collaborative editing

#4

Post by collint » Wed, Mar 06, 2013, 2:33 PM UTC

This appears to use ShareJS for collaborative editing. Like Google Wave, ShareJS sends all operations through a server, so that part isn't WebRTC.

https://github.com/josephg/ShareJS

Re: Open Source Hangout using WebRTC with collaborative editing

#5

Post by captn3m0 » Wed, Mar 06, 2013, 3:00 PM UTC

collint wrote: post #4

This appears to use ShareJS for collaborative editing. Like Google Wave, ShareJS sends all operations through a server, so that part isn't WebRTC. https://github.com/josephg/ShareJS

Yes. But server-side storage was necessary to keep the document stored somewhere (we use redis).