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Ypy-websocket is an async WebSocket connector for Ypy.
Documentation: https://davidbrochart.github.io/ypy-websocket
Source Code: https://github.com/y-crdt/ypy-websocket
Ypy-websocket is a Python library for building WebSocket servers and clients that connect and synchronize shared documents. It can be used to create collaborative web applications.
The following diagram illustrates a typical architecture. The goal is to share a document among several clients.
Each client has an instance of a YDoc, representing their view of a document. A shared document also lives in a room on the server side. Conceptually, a room can be seen as the place where clients collaborate on a document. The WebSocket to which a client connects points to the corresponding room through the endpoint path. In the example below, clients A and B connect to a WebSocket at path room-1
, and thus both clients find themselves in a room called room-1
. All the YDoc
synchronization logic is taken care of by the WebsocketProvider.
Each update to a shared document can be persisted to disk using a store, which can be a file or a database.
flowchart TD
classDef room1 fill:#f96
classDef room2 fill:#bbf
A[Client A<br>room-1]:::room1 <-->|WebSocket<br>Provider| server(WebSocket Server)
B[Client B<br>room-1]:::room1 <-->|WebSocket<br>Provider| server
C[Client C<br>room-2]:::room2 <-->|WebSocket<br>Provider| server
D[Client D<br>room-2]:::room2 <-->|WebSocket<br>Provider| server
server <--> room1((room-1<br>clients: A, B)):::room1
server <--> room2((room-2<br>clients: C, D)):::room2
A <-..-> room1
B <-..-> room1
C <-..-> room2
D <-..-> room2
room1 ---> store1[(Store)]
room2 ---> store2[(Store)]
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WebSocket connector for Ypy
We found that ypy-websocket demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 6 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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