Togetherjs is a real-time collaboration framework designed to synchronize application state, cursors, and navigation across multiple user sessions. It provides a synchronization tool for shared browsing and a signaling server to facilitate peer-to-peer communication.
The project integrates audio chat and media streaming via peer-to-peer technology, allowing collaborators to engage in live voice communication. It includes a presence and identity manager to map session participants to custom profiles, names, and avatars.
The framework covers a broad surface of collaborative capabilities, including user presence tracking, shared navigation following, and the generation of unique collaboration links. It manages state synchronization through the broadcasting of data to keep UI elements consistent and tracks user interactions by displaying remote mouse cursors and click events.