[Discuss] About empty block & Multi-person online collaboration scenario.

[lijie1129]

background

A few months ago, I started trying to introduce editorjs into multi-person collaboration scenarios and tried to connect with another crdt framework yjs.

Please see here for details: detail

When I tried to introduce editorjs into a multi-person collaboration scenario again, I encountered another problem that confused me:

A block with empty content will be judged as invalid by editorjs (implemented by each block tool in its own validate method).

Stand-alone offline scenario

This works fine and the user doesn't have to worry about empty blocks

Multi-person online collaboration scenario

When one of the users creates an empty block, if other users cannot see the empty block (because the editorjs.save method will not return invalid blocks), it may cause problems in achieving data consistency across multiple peers. More challenges.

All online users can see the created empty blocks in real time, which is also intuitive.

personal suggestion

Therefore, my personal thought is: Is it reasonable to adjust the judgment of empty blocks from invalid to valid?