Hi @dmonad!
Thanks for helping! The application is a collaborative editor that can possibly start in offline mode. And two people can start in offline mode in the the same globally-unique document.
SlateJS (an editor framework) requires the empty document be defined as:
{ children: [ { text: '' } ] } <-- that’s a node
Our text editor displays each node as a list item So the above node (the empty document) is displayed as a single list item:
When you press enter, you get a new list item: i.e.
So when two people create their empty document, and neither of them have entered any keys, but both of them try to go online then the yjs shared type gets both “empty nodes” in and the editor data looks like:
[
{ children: [ { text: '' } ] },
{ children: [ { text: '' } ] }
]
Which means each person’s empty document gets updated to show:
And I guess if we have X people go online from an empty document state then there’ll be X list items. Even though none of them have entered any data.
Of course this is quite an edge case but I was wondering if there’s a way to handle it?
Hope that made sense. Let me know if anything is unclear.
Cheers,
- Ali