Correct way to implement Version History like google doc

[kongweiying2]

I think clientID refers to a specific instance of Y.js rather than the user. So it’s expected to randomly change. The naming is confusing because it doesn’t refer to the user, but one particular session.

See here:

Globally unique client id

To be honest, I don’t understand the argument that you can’t use numbers because you need to cryptographically sign … document updates? With BigInts, you’ll have arbitrary precision for numbers. So you could even use a precision of 1024 bit or 4096. I guess you want your client-id to be some kind of certificate, not just a GUID. If you convert your certificate to a Uint8Array, you can use that as a source for the BigInt client-id. Seph is mapping from string to a number to improve the hashing …