Tag1 Team Talks | The Tag1 Consulting Podcast

Content collaboration has long been table stakes for content management systems like WordPress and Drupal, but what about real-time peer-to-peer collaboration between editors who need direct interaction to work on their content? The WordPress Gutenberg team has been working with Tag1 Consulting and the community of Yjs, an open-source real-time collaboration framework, to enable collaborative editing on the Gutenberg editor. Currently an experimental feature that is available in a Gutenberg pull request, shared editing in Gutenberg portends an exciting future for editing use cases beyond just textual content. Yjs is both network-agnostic and editor-agnostic, which means it can integrate with a variety of editors like ProseMirror, CodeMirror, Quill, and others. This represents substantial flexibility when it comes to the goals of WordPress to support collaborative editing and the potential for other CMSs like Drupal to begin exploring the prospect of shared editing out of the box. Though challenges remain to