Concepts – How Liveblocks works

Liveblocks is the platform for adding collaborative editing, comments, and notifications into your application.

Products

Liveblocks is a fully integrated solution built around core products, each enabling a different facet of collaborative experiences: Comments, Notifications, Text Editor, and Realtime APIs. You can decide what products you want to use based on your requirements and collaborative experiences you’re looking to build.

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.

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 REST API, webhooks, schema validation, analytics, and more.