Use of persistence layer in y-websockets

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This is more a small question than anything big:

In y-websockets (GitHub - yjs/y-websocket: Websocket Connector for Yjs), the persistence layer is used by setting the env variable like such YPERSISTENCE=./dbDir. However, it is unclear to me why the persistence layer is only working node ./node_modules/y-websocket/bin/server.js and not with the initial call method npx y-websocket-server. Especially, since the y-websocket server binary call is calling the same server.js file internally.

Maybe I’m missing some small detail in between. Thanks for the answers in adavance.

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Any comment here for this?

Any help appreciated!

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You can also write a custom persistence layer by using setPersistence: y-websocket/utils.js at master · yjs/y-websocket · GitHub

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@schlenger you can take a look at this repo to implement persistence with y-websocket server https://github.com/kapv89/yjs-scalable-ws-backend

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