Building a collaborative whiteboard app using ReactJS, Socket.io and NodeJS

Hi fellow readers! I hope you’re doing great. In this article, we will build our collaborative whiteboard similar to Google Meet’s whiteboard. We are going to use HTML canvas with ReactJS to create our whiteboard and socket.io to implement real-time communication.

Here’s how the project is gonna look when implemented. Let’s get started.

In the project directory, we will create folders, and create the frontend using the command npm create vite@latest and choose ‘react’ and ‘typescript’.

Create Canvas

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