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Ask HN: How to build one of those collaborative whiteboards?

4 pointsby someuser54541over 1 year ago
I&#x27;m looking for a new hobby project after taking a coding hiatus and thought it would be great to try and build one of those collaborate whiteboard things (like Figma&#x27;s FigJam and plenty others).<p>I&#x27;m curious as to what everyone thinks the best stack would be for something like this. What sort of technologies are used for actually drawing to a zoomable canvas?<p>I have experience with React and Angular, but I&#x27;ve never worked on a project that requires this type of frontend. I assume there&#x27;s a bunch of websocket work involved but that seems like the easiest part.<p>What sort of tech stack are these things usually built with?

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kikaover 1 year ago
For the same type (shared whiteboard) and kind (getting back into the game) I chose Flutter for front (web&#x2F;mobile) and Rust for back. Had a lot of fun and it even kinda worked :-)