Live Collaboration Support

[melody-universe]

Since Koenig is built on Lexical, and since Lexical has built-in support for Y.js, is there anything on the roadmap for allowing live collaboration?

If not, is this something the Ghost team would be open for contributions for? I am putting together a proposal for a client and we are considering Ghost as a CMS, but they are specifically looking for live collaboration.

[kevinansfield]

We've explored it but the Lexical yjs implementation at the time did not work well with the block-based editor approach we have where we rely heavily on DecoratorNode's with nested editors.

There are also significant architectural hurdles to overcome within Ghost itself for web socket support and management of YJS documents alongside the base Lexical and rendered formats, plus the need to completely overhaul how draft/published versioning works.

It's likely an area we will revisit at some point but we want to bring the Koenig monorepo into the Ghost monorepo and get up-to-date with latest Lexical versions first.