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Work · June 3, 2018

Domain-tailored CRDTs for collaboration without server involvement

Domain-tailored CRDTs for collaboration without server involvement launched on June 3, 2018 with 158 votes, #173 of 2,653 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.

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Domain-tailored CRDTs for collaboration without server involvement is a technical resource about implementing collaborative data structures for local-first applications. It explores causal trees and operational CRDTs, which are data types that allow multiple users to edit shared information simultaneously without requiring a central server. The project is intended for programmers seeking to understand conflict-free synchronization mechanisms and includes practical demonstrations of these concepts in action.

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Alexei

(Sorry about the length! At some point in the distant past, this was supposed to be a short blog post. If you like, you can skip straight to the demo section to get a sense of what this article is about.) Embarrassingly, most of my app development to date has been confined to local devices. Programmers like to gloat about the stupendous mental castles they build of their circuitous, multi-level architectures, but not me. In truth, networks leave me quite perplexed. I start thinking about data serializing to bits, servers performing their arcane handshakes and voting rituals, merge conflicts pushing into app-space and starting the whole process over again—and it all just turns to mush in my…from archagon.net

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