Suppose I&#39;m building some kind of collaborative text editor like JSFiddle. I would like to know where sites like these store all the source code files. I don&#39;t want to use Github to store the files since I want total control over the files.

Suppose I'm building some kind of collaborative text editor like JSFiddle. I would like to know where sites like these store all the source code files. I don't want to use Github to store the files since I want total control over the files.


<a class='user-mention' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href="https://hashnode.com/@theleancoder" title="Ankit Singh&#39;s Profile - Hashnode">Ankit Singh</a>, are you talking about a version control system like git?

[Ankit Singh](https://hashnode.com/@theleancoder "Ankit Singh's Profile - Hashnode"), are you talking about a version control system like git?


No. I mean how do you store the source code once a user submits some code in a text editor like draft.js? Do you store the code in files on server or in a datebase system?

No. I mean how do you store the source code once a user submits some code in a text editor like draft.js? Do you store the code in files on server or in a datebase system?


Do you want to store them online so others can see it, or for yourself? If the latter, do you have editor preference? Or do you just want to store it for yourself so you can grab them from within any editor?

Do you want to store them online so others can see it, or for yourself? If the latter, do you have editor preference? Or do you just want to store it for yourself so you can grab them from within any editor?


It&#39;s like a collaborative text editor where more than one developer can edit the same file. Not editor specific. I&#39;ll use one of the open source editors out there.

It's like a collaborative text editor where more than one developer can edit the same file. Not editor specific. I'll use one of the open source editors out there.


I designed a similar system several years ago and the way we architectured it was to have a single database record for that item (the contents of the areas on the page) that pointed to several markdown text files for each record. When the db record was retrieved the filenames were stored in it and the files loaded into the interface with the rest of the details from the record (user, date created, etc).
Hope this helps.

I designed a similar system several years ago and the way we architectured it was to have a single database record for that item (the contents of the areas on the page) that pointed to several markdown text files for each record. When the db record was retrieved the filenames were stored in it and the files loaded into the interface with the rest of the details from the record (user, date created, etc).

Hope this helps.


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