y-sweet: a Yjs server with persistence and auth
y-sweet is an open-source server for building realtime applications on top of the Yjs (opens in a new tab) CRDT library.
Features
- Persists document data to a network filesystem or S3-compatible storage, inspired by Figma’s infrastructure (opens in a new tab).
- Scales horizontally with a session backend (opens in a new tab) model.
- Deploys as a native Linux process, or as a WebAssembly module on Cloudflare's edge.
- Provides document-level access control via client tokens.
- Written in Rust with a focus on stability and performance, building on the excellent y-crdt (opens in a new tab) library.
y-sweet stack
The y-sweet server can be used by any Yjs app, or you can use our opinionated stack to integrate Yjs and y-sweet into a Next.js app.
@y-sweet/sdk, a TypeScript library for interacting withy-sweet-serverfrom your application backend.@y-sweet/react, a React hooks library for building Yjs applications.- A debugger for exploring Yjs document and presence state (WIP).
The goal of the y-sweet stack is to give developers the end-to-end developer ergonomics they would expect from a proprietary state-sync platform, without the lock-in.
y-sweet is MIT-licensed, and was created by Drifting in Space (opens in a new tab).
Hosted y-sweet
We are working on a hosted y-sweet service, available in September 2023. You can try a preview for free today by following our quickstart guide.
If you are interested in being a build partner for early access to new features, please reach out.
We are committed to growing y-sweet as an open-source-first project, wherever you decide to host it.