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6/29/2026

The original title is "How I Built Roomful: Zero-Backend Collaboration Primitives for Frontend Apps"
Original: How I Built Roomful: Zero-Backend Collaboration Primitives for Frontend Apps
Short summary
Roomful is an open-source, zero-backend SDK for adding real-time collaboration primitives (presence, cursors, shared state, awareness) to frontend apps without custom infrastructure. It supports multiple transport modes—peer-to-peer, local, and WebSocket relay—with the same API, letting developers prototype with zero backend and scale later. Available as framework-agnostic core or native adapters for React, Vue, Svelte, Angular, and more.
- •Install @roomful/core and wrap components with RoomfulProvider for instant multiplayer UX
- •Prototype with peer-to-peer or local transport, graduate to self-hosted WebSocket relay without API changes
- •Framework adapters provide native hooks and providers for React, Vue, Svelte, Angular, Next.js
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