liveblocks/liveblocks v2.0.0

2.0.0

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This major release marks the maturity of Liveblocks. It contains new products (@liveblocks/react-lexical) and clarifications (e.g. @liveblocks/react-comments is now called @liveblocks/react-ui).

Also, we bring major DX improvements by allowing you to specify your types globally now. These types will be typed once and shared across all Liveblocks APIs, which includes your Node backend.

// ❌ Before
export const {
  suspense: {
    RoomProvider,
    useRoom,
    // etc
  },
} = createRoomContext<Presence, Storage>(client);

// ✅ After
declare global {
  interface Liveblocks {
    Presence: Presence;
    Storage: Storage;
  }
}

In @liveblocks/react, you can now import hooks directly:

// ❌ Before: get hooks exported from your Liveblocks config
import { RoomProvider, useRoom, ... } from "./liveblocks.config";

// ✅ After: import hooks directly
import { RoomProvider, useRoom, ... } from "@liveblocks/react";
import { RoomProvider, useRoom, ... } from "@liveblocks/react/suspense";

// ❌ Before
const client = createClient(/* options */);

// ✅ After
<LiveblocksProvider /* options */>
  <App />
</LiveblocksProvider>

For full upgrade instructions and codemods, see the 2.0 upgrade guide.

create-liveblocks-app

• Update config generation for Liveblocks 2.0.
• Add --upgrade flag to automatically update all Liveblocks package to their latest version.

@liveblocks/client

• DX improvements: type once, globally, benefit everywhere

@liveblocks/react

• DX improvement: import hooks directly
• DX improvement: <ClientSideSuspense> no longer needs a function as its children
• New provider: LiveblocksProvider (replaces the need for createClient)
• New hook: useClient
• Tweak useMutation error message to be less confusing.
• Allow thread and activity metadata types to contain undefined values.

@liveblocks/react-ui

• Rename from @liveblocks/react-comments.
• Rename <CommentsConfig /> to <LiveblocksUIConfig />.
• Improve InboxNotification props types.

@liveblocks/react-lexical

• Initial release.

@liveblocks/node-lexical

• Initial release.

@liveblocks/yjs

• LiveblocksProvider is no longer a default export, it’s now import { LiveblocksYjsProvider } from "@liveblocks/yjs".

@liveblocks/node

• DX improvements: all Node client methods will pick up the same global types you’re using in your frontend
• Rename RoomInfo to RoomData.
• The webhook event NotificationEvent’s type can represent multiple kinds of notifications. ("thread", "textMention", and custom ones (e.g. "$myNotification"))

@liveblocks/codemod

• Initial release.