Collaborative Web Designing Platform Using Liveblocks

Abstract

Collaboration between designers and developers in modern web application development is often fragmented, leading to inefficiencies, delays, and repetitive manual implementation. This paper presents a Collaborative Web Designing Platform using Liveblocks, a web-based system that enables real-time multi-user UI design combined with AI-assisted frontend code generation. The platform allows multiple users to collaboratively design interfaces on a shared canvas with instant synchronization, presence awareness, and conflict-free updates. Visual designs and textual prompts are automatically converted into production-ready frontend code using modern frameworks such as Next.js. A live sandbox preview enables immediate validation and iterative refinement of generated applications. Experimental evaluation demonstrates improved productivity, reduced development time, and enhanced collaboration compared to traditional design-to-development workflows. The proposed system provides a scalable and efficient solution for modern collaborative web development environments.

Introduction

Traditional web application development separates UI design and implementation, leading to communication gaps, repeated manual coding, inconsistencies, and slower development cycles. Designers typically create static prototypes that developers later convert into code, causing delays and inefficiencies.

To overcome these issues, the paper proposes a Collaborative Web Designing Platform using Liveblocks that unifies real-time UI design, collaboration, and AI-driven code generation in a single environment. The platform enables multiple users to collaboratively design interfaces while automatically generating corresponding frontend code, eliminating traditional design–development handoff barriers.

The system uses a modular architecture with distinct layers: a UI layer for drag-and-drop design (React and Fabric.js), a collaboration layer powered by Liveblocks for real-time synchronization and presence awareness, an application logic layer using Next.js, an AI code generation layer that converts designs into production-ready Next.js components, a data management layer using PostgreSQL for persistence and versioning, and an execution and preview layer that provides secure, live in-browser previews via containerized sandboxes.

Implementation results show low-latency real-time collaboration, accurate UI-to-code generation, and seamless live previews. Performance evaluation demonstrates reduced manual coding, faster iteration cycles, improved consistency between design and code, and overall acceleration of the web development lifecycle compared to traditional workflows.

Conclusion

This paper presented a Collaborative Web Designing Platform using Liveblocks that integrates real-time multi-user design with AI-assisted code generation. By eliminating the traditional separation between design and development, the platform improves productivity, collaboration, and development speed. The system demonstrates strong potential as a scalable solution for modern web development workflows.

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Copyright

Copyright © 2025 Mrs. Shylaja L N, Hindu K R, Naveen R, Shalini H S, Sthavan Jain. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.