Thread by @PavloDev

Creating a #SaaS #NoCode tool with real-time collaboration possibilities is quite the challenge, and there are a few resources that are helping me.

First of all — an awesome @figmadesign blog. I was thrilled when I read figma.com/blog/how-figma… — it has inspired me to work on a collaborative tool in the first place, and it has been my main source of insight about multiplayer.

Figma though is freer in its data structures since it does not use an existing technology of working with layouts. In my case, I need to comply with HTML and CSS. Some CSS properties, for example, backgroundImage, are not atomic — they could hold multiple values at the same time.

In my case, I want to show any background as a separate entity in Skivvr, so when someone edits one background, it will not break any flow for another person editing the second background.

I spent a long time around CSS specification bit.ly/w3c-css and MDN reference mzl.la/3zpBHBY to understand some edge cases, and how I can implement them in a way that it would be useable in #NoCode environment. It paid off, and I learned a lot in the process :)

And, to be sure that I will be able to scale Skivvr when it will become a real thing, I use 12factor.net as my guiding principle in microservices development, and microservices.io as a handbook.