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Start a modern collaborative Next.js application in minutes.
Our Next.js Starter Kit features a number of realtime documents, each with a different form of multiplayer: Text editor, canvas, block-based editor, whiteboard.
Try it → $ npx create-liveblocks-app@latest --next
I've built a full docs site in a day with @nvie.com!
We've just open-sourced the HTTP router that's handles billions of requests per month at Liveblocks. Our team built it with Cloudflare Workers in mind, but it supports other runtimes too. Opinionated, type-safe, Zen.
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Introducing Zen Router: our open-source HTTP router.
Zen Router handles billions of requests per month at Liveblocks, and today we're open sourcing it. Initially designed for Cloudflare Workers, but also compatible with Node.js, Bun, and more.
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Article: Which JavaScript rich-text editor is best?
Tiptap, BlockNote, Lexical, more—a deep-dive into all the options. Our team's uniquely positioned to give guidance on this, as we've used them all at work. Written last year, still up to date!
Link ↓
We've released a new engine for Liveblocks Storage.
You can now create significantly larger collaborative documents and will see quicker load times. Additionally, other limits have been raised, such as the size of broadcast events.
Opt-in now to try it.
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To learn more about recently released features, visit our changelog.
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More information on setting this up can be found in our showcase.
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Build multi-tenant collaborative apps with Organizations.
When building with Liveblocks, you can define a user's organization, and all resources will be automatically compartmentalized—rooms, threads, notification, etc.
Below, you can see a different inbox in each workspace.
Set up E2E testing in your Liveblocks app.
We've written a step-by-step guide on how to test your multiplayer app using Playwright and our new open-source dev server.
lblcks.io/2nnRkJs
Liveblocks is going open-source!
Today we've opened up the sync engine server that powers Liveblocks Storage and Yjs on our platform. We've also built a local dev server for testing your @liveblocks.io app locally, try it in your app now:
$ npx liveblocks dev
My plan for today: announce that we're open sourcing the Liveblocks server! 🎉
The internet's plan for today: continvoucly morging my mentions 😂
Anyway, here's what I actually wanted to share today:
We've open sourced our sync engine and dev server.
Starting today, you can run and test your multiplayer applications locally using our new server package and CLI. Additionally, this marks a shift towards an open-source Liveblocks.
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Our documentation now natively serves markdown to agents that send the `Accept: text/markdown` header.
You can also append `.md` to any URL to get the same AI-friendly format.
Payloads are significantly smaller, and easier for AI to ingest.
“That was the moment it clicked. Something I thought would be complicated was immediately smooth.”—thanks Teddy Ni!
Exactly the experience we aim to provide at Liveblocks.
Learn how Magic Oatterns built their realtime collaborative AI workflow ↓
Love seeing real-time @liveblocks.io apps in the wild!
Magic Patterns is an awesome AI design tool that can generate designs from your own design system. It's genuinely much better at design than other tools I've used, and has full multiplayer collaboration.
Try it ↓
I've set up a real-time AG Grid table!
It's got full online presence & conflict resolution—multiple people can simultaneously edit cells, and all changes merge automatically.
How it works ↓
Set up a multiplayer table in your app.
Add realtime editing and online presence to your table with Liveblocks Storage. We've added a new demo to our showcase, highlighting where to get started when building this.
Experimenting with a demo for a new interactive post for @liveblocks.io.
Can you guess what it'll be about?
The video clip above demonstrates our Next.js Starter Kit, a ready-made app with full realtime collaboration.
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Enable multiplayer editing in your Next.js app in minutes.
Our Tiptap extension provides full multiplayer cursors, commenting, a notifications inbox for missed comments. Plus a whole infrastructure for collaboration, including webhooks, REST APIs, and DevTools.
Get started ↓
What's new in Liveblocks → January 2026
• Comment metadata: Enables two-way sync, custom comments.
• Always use knowledge: Require copilots to read their knowledge.
• New quickstart flow: New focused get started pages, plus new guides.
Blog post ↓
Interactive article: How to animate multiplayer cursors.
Rendering smooth cursors always needs interpolation, as network conditions are never perfect—here's how to do it. I wrote this a few years back, techniques still apply!
Link ↓
Read more about last week's changes in our changelog.
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