We’ve introduced APIs for end users to configure their notifications, server-side text editing for Tiptap, improved Yjs & WebSocket stability, and written lots of new content.
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This February we’ve released new APIs for notifications, text editing, and stability.
To use the latest features, update your packages with the following command.
If you were previously on Liveblocks 2.15 or below, make sure to follow our upgrade guides before updating.
When using Liveblocks Notifications, your end users can now individually configure which notifications should be sent outside your application, and on which channel, for example via email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Web Push. We’ve also released new React hooks that make it easy to create a user notifications panel in your application.
Users will be able to choose which notifications to receive, and on which channel—for example, one user may wish to receive new comment notifications via email, but not via Slack. This works by changing which webhook events are sent by which user, allowing you to handle each separately. Both custom and Liveblocks notifications are supported.
We’ve also created a new dashboard page that allows you to configure notifications webhooks for your users, including setting a default value.
To learn more, and to find our new examples and guides, make sure to read our focused blog post: Configure each user’s notification settings for email, Slack, and more.
You can now edit your Tiptap, ProseMirror, and BlockNote state from the server. Our latest text editor package has methods for initializing content, fetching state, and more. For example, here’s how to insert a line of text into a document.
You may notice that this package is called
@liveblocks/prosemirror,
but can be used for Tiptap and BlockNote. This is because these editors extend
ProseMirror, and in terms of APIs, a ProseMirror extension makes the most sense
for server-side editing.
Here’s another snippet, showing how to fetch your editor content as markdown.
Make sure to read our
@liveblocks/node-prosemirror
to learn more. We’ve also spent time improving our
@liveblocks/node-lexical
documentation, if you’d like to edit your Lexical documents from the server
instead.
If you’re curious about different text editor frameworks, we’ve written a new guide that compares the features of a number of editors, highlighting the important parts. Read it now— Which rich text editor framework should you choose in 2025?
We’ve made some API improvements recently, solving a couple of tricky bugs.
In some applications, Yjs documents would desynchronize at times, particularly when dynamically switching between rooms. We’ve added a new function that solves these issues, cleaning up Yjs correctly on page transitions. We now recommend using this method to connect to our Yjs server in all frameworks.
If you’ve been having any problems with Yjs, we recommend you upgrade and start
using
getYjsProviderForRoom
now. You can learn more in the
Setup section of our API reference.
Internally, Liveblocks uses WebSockets, and there’s always been a technical limit on how large WebSocket messages can be, which meant especially large updates were not synced correctly. We’ve had an experimental feature for a while that will send large messages over HTTP, but we now have another more reliable option.
The new strategy is called split, and it’ll split large messages into smaller
chunks. We’ve added a new largeMessageStrategy option to
LiveblocksProvider
and createClient that
can enable this feature.
We’ve been putting a lot of effort into the Liveblocks blog recently, working on writing valuable content for you, straight from our engineers.
In February, we released three of these posts, alongside our regular updates:
Stay tuned—we have lots more to come!
Here’s a list of other improvements in our changelog this month:
llms.txt and llms-full.txt files to
our website to help AI tools better understand our product.To use these latest features, update your packages with:
Contributors include:
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