Concepts - How Liveblocks works

Liveblocks is a real-time collaboration infrastructure for building performant collaborative experiences. The foundations of Liveblocks are built upon four core concepts: products, rooms, integrations, and platform.

Products

Liveblocks is a fully integrated solution built around core products, each enabling a different facet of collaborative experiences: Presence, Broadcast, and Storage. You can decide what products you want to use based on your requirements and collaborative experiences you’re looking to build.

Rooms

A room is the digital space in which people collaborate. You can require your users to be authenticated to interact with rooms, and each room can have specific permissions and metadata associated with them.

Integrations

Liveblocks and its community provide integrations that developers can use to integrate with the Liveblocks products within the rooms. You can use existing integrations for specific libraries and frameworks, or create a custom one for your needs.

Platform

Liveblocks provides a fully-hosted platform built around a WebSocket edge infrastructure that scales to millions of users. With the platform, you get a lot of powerful tools such as REST APIs, webhooks, DevTools, schema validation, analytics, and more.