Building your own collaborative text editor for the web has become fairly doable. In the rich, though chaotic, Javascript world there are many different approaches : this article is one of them. If you‘re interested in our setup or like stories about developers in kamikaze mode, keep reading. — A few months ago, I was sitting around the meeting table with Johannes Weiss and Felix Gast on a Wednesday night. This was the weekly Jour Fixe for our startup, Conode, a productivity SaaS that helps teams to organize meetings.