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Comment by softlylove

2 years ago

How does it compare with Liveblocks?

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stopachka  2 years ago

Both Instant and Liveblocks support ephemeral data: like cursors, activity indicators, and presence.

The difference comes to storing data: Liveblocks persists data based on 'room'. Instant supports full relations, so you can create a query like: "listen for items in these 3 rooms"

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