fieryswampshire / spacecraft

Spacecraft - multiplayer code editor & terminal

Spacecraft - code, create and hop together.

Inspiration

Cloud developer environments are the new cool. Services like Gitpod & Github Codespaces have helped save countless number of hours required to configure developer environments. We are absolute fan of their products but they lack the social element. Imagine Codespaces with Figma-like multiplayer, That's exactly what spacecraft is all about!

What it does

We have built the editor from ground up, while keeping our main focus on the real-time multiplayer aspect. We have successfully built a multiplayer terminal & editor(kinda). We even offer managed databases & one-click deploy to hop!

How we built it

We are using the t3 stack for our frontend & simple websocket server with a pseudo-terminal for our backend.

Challenges we ran into

For our editor, we were dependent on firepad but it turns out it is frozen and doesn't work with latest versions of monaco & firebase. We tried looking into alternatives like - yjs, automerge & supabase realtime. None of them really fit our use-case.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We think we have built a pretty cool project in the limited time we had. We are very proud about our one-click hop deploy button!

What's next for spacecraft

We've already started building a collaborative-editor based on CRDT & hopefully we'll offer multiplayer editors soon!