edit-text is a collaborative rich text editor, written in Rust with a frontend in WebAssembly.

👶 This is very early software.

📚 Read more in the Book on edit-text Internals.

✏️ Or try out the edit-text sandbox.

You'll need cargo-script to run the build script and a few other build tools:

cargo install cargo-script
cargo install wasm-bindgen-cli
cargo install diesel_cli --no-default-features --features sqlite

Install the WebAssembly target:

rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown

To test out the text editor live, run the server using this command. On first startup, this will first compile the database and wasm bundle. After that, this command launches the HTTP and WebSocket servers:

./x.rs wasm-build
./x.rs frontend-build
./x.rs server

Navigate to localhost:8000 and start editing!

You can run the server in release mode easily with the --release flag:

./x.rs server --release

For more commands, run ./x.rs help.

Start the sync server in one terminal with this switch:

./x.rs server --client-proxy --release

In another terminal, run the client proxy:

./x.rs client-proxy --release

You will see any failures appear in the client-proxy code that would appear in the browser console when in WASM mode.

The bundled frontend code (written in TypeScript) is tracked in git, but you can also compile it yourself. Make sure you have Node installed first, then:

npm i --prefix ./edit-frontend
./x.rs frontend-watch

This command watches the edit-frontend directory and continuously builds all frontend code. Note that the .wasm bundle isn't inlined into the bundle with webpack, but loaded asynchronously.

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