Nested subdocs will not be recognized

[rozek]

What might be good to know: while you may add subdocs to nested Y.Maps and Y.Arrays, adding a subdoc “inner” to a (Y.Map or Y.Array in a) subdoc “outer” will not be recognized by the “parent” Y.Doc of subdoc “outer”.

You may want to consider this detail when modelling your shared data structures…

[joakim]

Can you elaborate on this (half a year later)?

Do you mean the same issue as described here?

How to deepObserve subdocuments?

As part of evaluating Yjs for my company, I’m trying to understand how to observe a tree of subdocuments. In the following example, there is a root document and a child document. const Y = require("yjs"); const rootDoc = new Y.Doc(); const rootMap = rootDoc.getMap(); rootMap.observeDeep((events) => { for (const event of events) { console.log(event.keysChanged); } }); const childDoc = new Y.Doc(); const childMap = childDoc.getMap(); childMap.set("prop-x", "val-x"); rootMap.set("child…