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Hosted APIs and React components for multiplayer presence, comments, notifications and collaborative editing.

Bidirectional real-time events over WebSocket with fallbacks, rooms and auto-reconnect.

High-performance CRDT for collaborative editing, with bindings for Tiptap, Lexical, CodeMirror and more.

Framework for stateful real-time servers on Cloudflare Durable Objects, with the partysocket client.

Head to head

Metric	Liveblocks	Socket.IO	Yjs	PartyKit
Stars	4.8k	63.2k	23.1k	5.7k
Weekly downloads	564k	21.2M	15.7M	46.5k
Download growth	+54%	+27%	+67%	-17%
Popularity score	69/100	89/100	84/100	62/100
Forks	449	10.2k	820	203
Open issues	102	189	161	92
Last commit	6d ago	6d ago	2d ago	4w ago
Latest version	3.25.0	4.8.4	13.6.33	0.0.115
License	n/a	MIT	n/a	MIT
First released	2021	2010	2014	2022
Signals	None	Popular	Popular	None
Listed in	Frontend › Real-time, Sync & Collaboration	Frontend › Real-time, Sync & Collaboration Backend › Real-time & WebSockets	Frontend › Real-time, Sync & Collaboration	Frontend › Real-time, Sync & Collaboration Backend › Real-time & WebSockets

Weekly downloads over time

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Liveblocks
Socket.IO
Yjs
PartyKit