Ever thought to yourself, ""You know what would be fun? Building Google Docs, but all by myself“? I did, and I have some fun and painful stories to share!

Collaborative rich text editing on the web is a world you may not know much about, but hopefully after all is said and done, I'll leave you feeling: “if that doofus could do it, I probably could too.”

In this talk, I'll show you how to build rich text editing apps using React, Tiptap, and how to make them collaborative with CRDTs (Conflict-free Replicated Data Types) using Y.js.