Talk:VisualEditor/Real-time collaboration

that's all. I get a little frisson of delight every time I visit this page.

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This feature relies on a separate Node JS service. That is still the case after 1.35.

Since MediaWiki is using SQL databases, why is this developed so that it requires MongoDB?

We're using a Node.js to create a Socket.io server, so this already has additional dependencies. MongoDB gives us a fast flat document store.