2025.06.26

📰 News & Discussions

LoFi/27 Community Meetup (talks video)

The LoFi/27 community meetup took place on Tuesday June 24th, 2025, with talks by James Arthur ("The Sync Stack"), Rashid Aziz ("Introducing create-lofi-app") and George Anthoi ("A fair novelist writing software").

Sync London (upcoming event)

"[Interested] in building products on a local-first / sync engine architecture? Come along to the first Sync London, a meetup to learn and talk about better ways of building software." Jul 1 Tuesday, July 1 6:00 PM - 9:30 PM GMT+1.

🛠️ Tools & Resources

Offline caching with AWS Amplify, Tanstack, AppSync and MongoDB Atlas

"In this blog we demonstrate how to create an offline-first application with optimistic UI using AWS Amplify, AWS AppSync, and MongoDB Atlas."

Hologram

"Hologram is a full-stack isomorphic Elixir web framework that runs on top of Phoenix." "Client-side state: state management happens in the browser for snappy user interfaces"

✨ Apps

Where

"As an effort to push the envelope and be LocalFirst, we've been using these tools at where.app: @electric-sql.com for reactive Postgres across devices - @tanstack.com DB to power structured client-side views" - Pratik

Nuxt Todo App with Offline Sync

"A full-stack Todo application built with Nuxt 3, RxDB for offline-first local storage, and Drizzle ORM with PostgreSQL for backend persistence. It features full offline support with sync capabilities."

Privatefolio

"Privatefolio is a local-first, privacy-focused portfolio manager (tracker)" - kernelwhisperer on Reddit

Show HN: ClickClack – an offline Mac/iOS typing test with deep stats iCloud Sync

"ClickClack is a native SwiftUI typing-practice app that runs entirely offline, stores data locally with SwiftData, and (optionally) syncs through the user’s private CloudKit container"

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