Microsoft makes its Fluid Framework open source, the TypeScript library for creating web applications with real-time collaboration – Explica

After promising last May that the Fluid Framework would become open source, Microsoft has finally released the code and posted it on GitHub. This library was very well received at Build 2019, Microsofts developer conference.

The idea behind Fluid Framework is to offer developers a platform to create collaborative low-latency experiences around documents, in the same way that Microsoft itself is using it within Office applications.

The idea is to offer applications that allow a user to make changes in the browser, such as adding comments, or editing the text, or pressing a button, and the rest of the users who collaborate can see it almost instantly.

It is something like offering a framework for developers to create applications in the style of Google Docs with collaboration in near real time, but with even more features.

Additionally, this Microsoft technology enables the developer to leverage a customer-centric application model with persistent data that do not require writing custom server-side code.

All documentation is available at fluidframework.com, although due to the huge traffic the site is experiencing, it has been working intermittently. In addition to this there are some demos available at fluidframework.com/playground among which are a small puzzle game in which thousands of people made changes to the puzzle in real time, and each user could see the thousands of edits and updates that the others did.

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