Goodbye submit buttons

Here is my experimentation of a simple, yet quite impactful change: removing submit buttons.

tl;dr: The goal here was to save input values on the fly, in order for the web page to be used as a real-time collaboration tool. And I’ll explain the problems I ran into.

Tech Stack

Vue.js 2 / Node.js + GraphQL / Apollo with subscriptions + MongoDB.

I’m pretty sure I could have used Firebase Realtime Database and get a similar end result.

Context