Git-backed real time collaborative editor built with meteor.
Here's a quick demo: http://youtu.be/z-_wSiGS18U
The current version of jotgit is a prototype that lets you collaboratively edit Markdown files in a local git repository. Then you can save the files (with an optional commit message), and they'll be committed to the repository.
If you have not yet installed Meteor, do that:
curl https://install.meteor.com | /bin/sh
(This assumes that you're on unix.)
Clone this repository:
git clone https://github.com/jdleesmiller/jotgit.git
Start up meteor:
meteor
It should pull in all of the required dependencies. Make some tea.
Then visit localhost:3000 in your browser. Be sure to try with multiple windows!
By default, it loads up the test repository in tests/demo. To point it at another repository, you can either edit server/jotgit.coffee or use meteor settings to specify an alternative projectPath.
Jotgit ...
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is written in CoffeeScript, a language that feels a bit like Python and compiles to JavaScript.
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is built with Meteor, which is an up-and-comping web framework for real time web apps. It is remarkably developer-friendly, and it already has very good documentation.
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is powered by operational transformation, and in particular the excellent ot.js implementation.
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uses CodeMirror for the editing component.
The code is structured in the usual way for a meteor app: the files in server run on the server, the files in client run on the client, and the files in lib run on both. There's also a jotgit-core package in packages/jotgit-core that contains most of the core classes (stuff that is not very meteor-specific).
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allow remote pushes to the repository
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auto-saves
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multiple projects
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user accounts
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some way of handling multiple commit authors (apparently not supported by git)
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option to commit to github instead of a local git repo
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file type handling (various text files, binary files)
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file uploads
MIT --- see LICENSE file.