# FirebaseExtended/firepad

Collaborative Text Editor Powered by Firebase

Repository: https://github.com/FirebaseExtended/firepad
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/firepad
Language: JavaScript
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Archived: true
Last push: 2024-09-11T07:21:02+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4908, "days_push": 721, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3875, forks 871 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:27.888346+00:00)

## What it is
Firepad is an open-source collaborative code and text editor library powered by Firebase for real-time sync and storage, designed to be embedded in web applications. It supports rich text and code editing modes and requires no server-side code.

## Use cases
- add real-time collaborative text editing to a web app
- build a shared code editor like Google Docs for code
- embed a collaborative rich text editor in my application
- sync editor state across multiple users with Firebase
- build a collaborative notepad or whiteboard-style editor

## When to choose
- you already use Firebase Realtime Database and want collaborative editing
- you need an embeddable, serverless collaborative editor in a web app
- you want CodeMirror-based collaborative code editing

## When to avoid
- you need a project under active development with new features and triaged issues
- you don't want a Firebase dependency for sync and storage
- you need a standalone editor application rather than an embeddable component

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: editor, websocket, state-management
- domain: web-development, frontend, text-editors
- platform: browser
- tags: collaborative-editing, firebase, codemirror, real-time-collaboration, rich-text-editor, frozen-project, real-time, javascript, nodejs

## Member repositories
- FirebaseExtended/firepad (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:27.888346+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:25:45.906341+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/FirebaseExtended/firepad (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:27.888346+00:00, sha 034876d71988)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.