How we made Jupyter Notebooks collaborative with Yjs

19 · JupyterHub · June 11, 2021, 1:44 a.m.
Collaborative editing — à la Google Docs — is a feature that you still rarely find in applications. One of the few good things that came out of this pandemic is that more people seem to care about making their applications fit for remote collaboration. Of course, they always cared about real-time collaboration. It’s just a very hard feature to add to your application. It took the Jupyter project several years to land this feature. Finally, they ended up with a solution that is based on the Yjs F...