Concepts - How Liveblocks works

Liveblocks provides customizable pre-built features for human and AI collaboration, used to make your product multiplayer, engaging, and AI‑ready

Ready-made features

Liveblocks provides ready‑to‑use features through customizable pre‑built components that can easily be dropped into your product to boost growth: AI Copilots, Comments, Multiplayer Editing, Presence, and Notifications. You can decide features you want to use based on your requirements and collaborative experiences you’re looking to add.

Rooms

A room is the digital space in which people collaborate. You can require your users to be authenticated to interact with rooms, and each room can have specific permissions and metadata associated with them.

Projects

A project in your dashboard represents an application which has rooms. Most Liveblocks products are room-based, however Notifications is project-based instead, so that users can receive notifications from other rooms. Data storage location (e.g. EU, US) is managed at project level and can be selected when creating a new project.

Packages and SDKs

Integrations for specific libraries and frameworks to add Liveblocks-powered collaborative experiences to your product: JavaScript, React, React UI, React Lexical, Node.js Lexical, Redux, Zustand, Yjs, and Node.js. Integrations are designed to serve various collaboration use cases such as collaborative text editors, comments, notifications, and more.

Platform

Liveblocks provides a fully-hosted platform built around a WebSocket infrastructure that scales effortlessly to millions of users. The platform equips you with a set of powerful tools such as our sync datastore, REST API, webhooks, analytics, and more.