zed/crates/collab
Joseph T. Lyons 64315583c8
Add the ability to reorder favorited collab channels (#52649)
Currently, if you try to re-order a favorite, the favorite will not
reorder, but the actual channels will.


https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1fbab9ea-4ff4-473f-8de3-d3b60696c5a1

Additionally, a new bug seems to be that if you reorder channels, focus
jumps to a favorite:


https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/fa776ad2-8648-4e68-a253-a98f57bd4951

This PR allows for re-ordering of favorites independent of the actual
channels, and fixes the focusing bug


https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/977e575a-055c-4f26-8183-2744ff7f8f56

I didn't feel comfortable adding just the functionality/fixes alone, so
I added a function to represent the state of the collab panel as a list
of strings, like how testing around the project panel is, and wrote a
few tests to ensure the behavior was pinned down.

The tests cover testing:

- Favoriting/unfavoriting
- Reordering favorites without impacting order of channels in the
channels list
- Reordering channels in the channels list without impacting order of
favorites

Self-Review Checklist:

- [x] I've reviewed my own diff for quality, security, and reliability
- [x] Unsafe blocks (if any) have justifying comments
- [x] The content is consistent with the [UI/UX
checklist](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#uiux-checklist)
- [x] Tests cover the new/changed behavior
- [x] Performance impact has been considered and is acceptable

Closes #ISSUE

Release Notes:

- Added the ability to reorder favorited collab channels.
2026-03-30 13:07:13 +00:00
..
k8s collab: Remove unused Config fields (#48836) 2026-02-10 01:21:51 +00:00
migrations Implement sidebar rendering of the configured worktrees (#51342) 2026-03-12 17:53:38 +00:00
migrations.sqlite Implement sidebar rendering of the configured worktrees (#51342) 2026-03-12 17:53:38 +00:00
seed collab: Seed GitHub users from static data (#18301) 2024-09-24 16:35:09 -04:00
src Implement sidebar rendering of the configured worktrees (#51342) 2026-03-12 17:53:38 +00:00
tests/integration Add the ability to reorder favorited collab channels (#52649) 2026-03-30 13:07:13 +00:00
.env.toml collab: Remove unused Config fields (#48836) 2026-02-10 01:21:51 +00:00
Cargo.toml theme: Split out theme_settings crate (#52569) 2026-03-27 14:41:25 +01:00
LICENSE-AGPL chore: Add crate licenses. (#4158) 2024-01-23 16:56:22 +01:00
README.md collab: Don't run migrations on startup (#44430) 2025-12-08 21:46:52 +00:00
seed.default.json Add more admin to seed script (#34220) 2025-07-10 16:54:00 +00:00

Zed Server

This crate is what we run at https://collab.zed.dev.

It contains our back-end logic for collaboration, to which we connect from the Zed client via a websocket after authenticating via https://zed.dev, which is a separate repo running on Vercel.

Local Development

Database setup

Before you can run the collab server locally, you'll need to set up a zed Postgres database. Follow the steps sequentially:

  1. Ensure you have postgres installed. If not, install with brew install postgresql@15.
  2. Follow the steps on Brew's formula and verify your $PATH contains /opt/homebrew/opt/postgresql@15/bin.
  3. If you hadn't done it before, create the postgres user with createuser -s postgres.
  4. You are now ready to run the bootstrap script:
script/bootstrap

This script will set up the zed Postgres database, and populate it with some users. It requires internet access, because it fetches some users from the GitHub API.

The script will create several admin users, who you'll sign in as by default when developing locally. The GitHub logins for the default users are specified in the seed.default.json file.

To use a different set of admin users, create crates/collab/seed.json.

{
  "admins": ["yourgithubhere"],
  "channels": ["zed"]
}

Testing collaborative features locally

In one terminal, run Zed's collaboration server and the livekit dev server:

foreman start

In a second terminal, run two or more instances of Zed.

script/zed-local -2

This script starts one to four instances of Zed, depending on the -2, -3 or -4 flags. Each instance will be connected to the local collab server, signed in as a different user from seed.json or seed.default.json.

Deployment

We run two instances of collab:

Both of these run on the Kubernetes cluster hosted in Digital Ocean.

Deployment is triggered by pushing to the collab-staging (or collab-production) tag in GitHub. The best way to do this is:

  • ./script/deploy-collab staging
  • ./script/deploy-collab production

You can tell what is currently deployed with ./script/what-is-deployed.