SyncLab IDE: The Real-Time Collaborative & AI-Driven Coding Platform

Traditional software development workflows rely heavily on fragmented tools for coding, communication, debugging, and task management, leading to inefficiencies in distributed team collaboration. This paper presents SyncLab, an AI-powered real-time collaborative Integrated Development Environment (IDE) designed to unify coding, communication, project management, and intelligent assistance into a single web-based platform. The system integrates WebSocket-based real-time synchronization, Operational Transformation (OT) algorithms for concurrent editing consistency, AI-powered coding assistance using Google Gemini, and collaborative task management features. The platform is developed using React.js, Node.js, Fastify, PostgreSQL, Redis, and cloud-native infrastructure technologies. Experimental evaluation demonstrates reduced collaboration latency, improved developer coordination, minimized merge conflicts, and enhanced productivity for distributed teams. The proposed platform highlights the effectiveness of integrating real-time collaboration with AI-driven development support in modern software engineering environments.