Architecture
React Flow Realtime Collaboration with Yjs and Awareness Cursors
Patterns for CRDT-backed graphs, conflict-free node moves, and showing collaborator presence on the canvas.
2025-04-1211 min readReact Flow, Yjs, Collaboration
Yjs provides a shared document; map node positions and metadata into Y types. Throttle awareness updates so presence cursors do not flood the network on large teams.
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