Automerge 2.2: Rich Text
We are delighted to announce the release of rich text support in Automerge, including a fully supported ProseMirror binding as the initial reference implementation. This means that you can now build collaborative applications on Automerge with realtime and asynchronous editing of rich text including inline formatting, block elements, and more.
If you want to get started building right away, check out the library here: https://github.com/automerge/automerge-prosemirror
For everyone else, let's start with a demo, before moving on to discuss what rich text is and how Automerge helps you use it.
On its own, this should seem pretty boring: it's a rich text editor which supports most of the features users typically expect from a rich text editor. What makes this demo interesting is the support for real time collaboration which means that we can manage concurrent changes to complex formatting, like this:
The Automerge-ProseMirror binding is designed to be easy to integrate into any ProseMirror editor you might want to build. To see how it works, refer to the cookbook, but the short story is that it takes just a few lines of code.
