muddlebee / write-with-me

Real-time Collaborative Markdown Editor

✍️ Write with me

A real-time collaborative blog post editor built with GraphQL, React, React Markdown, & AWS AppSync.

This repo goes along with the medium post "How to Build a Real-time Collaborative Markdown Editor with React Hooks, GraphQL & AWS AppSync". Click here to check it out.

Try it out at www.writewithme.dev

Base schema

Here's the base schema:

type Post @model {
  id: ID!
  clientId: ID!
  markdown: String!
  title: String!
  createdAt: String
}

We have a Post type that has a few properties. The most important property is the markdown. This is where we are keeping up with the state of the post.

We also have a clientId to properly handle GraphQL subscriptions on the client.

Launching the app

Deploy this fullstack app with a single click to the Amplify Console:

Run locally with the Amplify CLI

1. Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/dabit3/write-with-me.git

2. Change into the directory & install dependencies

cd write-with-me

npm install

3. Initialize the Amplify backend

amplify init

4. Push the application into your account

amplify push