This README is for [email protected]. For [email protected], see the 1.x-beta branch. To upgrade, see the upgrade guide.
ShareDB is a realtime database backend based on Operational Transformation (OT) of JSON documents. It is the realtime backend for the DerbyJS web application framework.
For questions, discussion and announcements, join the ShareJS mailing list or check the FAQ.
Please report any bugs you find to the issue tracker.
- Realtime synchronization of any JSON document
- Concurrent multi-user collaboration
- Synchronous editing API with asynchronous eventual consistency
- Realtime query subscriptions
- Simple integration with any database
- Horizontally scalable with pub/sub integration
- Projections to select desired fields from documents and operations
- Middleware for implementing access control and custom extensions
- Ideal for use in browsers or on the server
- Offline change syncing upon reconnection
- In-memory implementations of database and pub/sub for unit testing
- Access to historic document versions
- Realtime user presence syncing
https://share.github.io/sharedb/
The documentation is stored as Markdown files, but sometimes it can be useful to run these locally. The docs are served using Jekyll, and require Ruby >2.4.0 and Bundler:
gem install jekyll bundlerThe docs can be built locally and served with live reload:
npm run docs:install
npm run docs:start