How Figma's Multiplayer Technology Works

Re:How Figma's Multiplayer Technology Works by melvinroest on Monday October 28, 2019 @03:08PM (#21380406)

Note: there's no client-server architecture needed with things such as Figma since it can be done P2P. I'm just past the beginning stages of it. You can use a mix of WebRTC/WebTorrent's infrastructure to get a serverless (i.e. use WebTorrent's signaling services) for P2P. A library called Bugout [1] implemented it this way.

If you want to see an example of how it works, check out my side project Doodledocs. I modified the Bugout library a bit for performance improvements, but my project is using its concept on how to spin up a serverless (i.e. not your servers but those of WebTorrent) P2P web app [2].

[1] https://github.com/chr15m/bugout

[2] Doodledocs is a collaborative doodling web app that I created as a sideproject, so it is just a bit related to Figma. I didn't make CRDTs yet, since I want a simple doodle environment for pencil/eraser (+ simple web annotation/image annotation).

Link: https://doodledocs.com (browsers tested: Chrome/laptop, Chrome/iPad, Safari/iPad).

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Re:How Figma's Multiplayer Technology Works by ggambetta on Monday October 28, 2019 @03:15PM (#21380465)

Doodledocs looks like a really fun project, I'll definitely take a look :)

I didn't mention P2P or edit my comment at any point, BTW.

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Re:How Figma's Multiplayer Technology Works by melvinroest on Monday October 28, 2019 @03:15PM (#21380468)

Huh... weird, maybe I read into things. I also read the word "collaborative" somewhere.

Oh! I see, I read "gatherhunterer" his comment as the top comment. I meant to reply to him, I simply clicked "reply" on the top comment.

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