How to track user attribution for changes in slate-yjs

[KentonParton]

Hey there! 👋

I'm working on a collaborative editing project using slate-yjs with the Plate editor, and I could use some guidance on tracking user contributions.

What I'm trying to do:
I need to keep track of which user made what changes in the document - basically knowing who wrote or edited each piece of content. This would be super helpful for comparing versions and seeing who made specific changes.

Current setup:

• Using slate-yjs with the Plate editor for the frontend
• Hocuspocus for the backend

The tricky part:
I'm not quite sure how to:

1. Associate user info with each change
2. Store this info so it sticks around in the document

What else:

1. We would also need to verify the userId of each change submitted to the server matches the userId on the server. I think we could do this in the before-handle-message

Any tips or pointers would be really appreciated!

Thanks in advance! 🙏

[BitPhinix]

It would need custom handling, although this shouldn't be too hard - yjs keeps track of which client id caused a specific change as part of its conflict resolution, so it already has "attribution". So you would just need to store which client id belongs to which user (and do some custom handling to ensure updates for each corresponding client id are only submitted by the associated userids).

I did this for someone before but forgot the implementation details - I'm kind of out of the yjs world atm.