2025.10.02

📰 News & Discussions

LoFi/30 Community Meetup

The LoFi/30 community meetup took place on Tuesday September 30th, 2025, with talks by Noel De Martin ("Local-First, Solid and Everything in Between"), German Jablonski ("DocNode: CRDT and OT made easy"), and Akshay Kumar ("Building a Digital 'Room of Requirement' with CRDTs").

Why Cinapse Moved Away From CRDTs For Sync

"CRDTs are an impressive and exciting technology, but they turned out to be a bad fit for our use case. Hopefully sharing our experience helps others who are considering building apps with real-time sync."

The Secret Life of a Local-First Value

"A deep dive into how CRDT-powered local-first apps track, merge, and sync every INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE inside SQLite."

Local-Second, Event-Driven Webapps

"[W]e can take some of the [local-first] ideas and apply them to create a 'local-second' solution. By default, the system would operate in a traditional, centralized client-server fashion. That is, a completely standard webapp+HTTP API. However, when there are network problems, we would degrade into an offline mode, which offers limited functionality."

🛠️ Tools & Resources

zustand-sync

"A barebones middleware to sync zustand stores across multiple clients. zustand-sync uses JSON Patch (RFC 6902) under the hood to translate state changes into patches that can be sent over a transport layer."

Collaborative Text Editing Over PowerSync

"After meeting at Local-First Conf, Kobie and Conrad from the PowerSync team reached out to me about [...] if I could implement my talk Collaborative Text Editing without CRDTs or OT on top of PowerSync"

SpacetimeDB

"With an SQL-style query language, real-time subscription queries, fully programmable permissions, transactional updates, and ultra high performance thanks to embedded application logic, [SpacetimeDB] is the next generation serverless database."

✨ Apps

DisasterNet

"An offline-first, peer-to-peer emergency communication system built to communicate in disaster-prone areas where there is no connectivity to the internet."

Tilly

"Tilly is an open-source personal relationship manager that helps you stay connected with the people who matter most. Built as a React PWA with client-side sync, offline-first design, and optional agentic AI assistance." Uses Jazz.

MyTinyTools

"145+ lightning-fast tools for images, PDFs, text, and development. Everything runs in your browser—no uploads, no tracking."

Savr

"Savr is an app for saving online content to read later. It is file-centric, offline first, future proof, and favors decentralization."

Quadrants

"It is a local-first code playground designed around quickly trying out web design ideas, whether you’re at your desk or on the go."

Dualite

"Dualite is a powerful AI-driven local-first frontend builder designed for developers, startups, and design teams to turn ideas into production-ready web and mobile applications directly in the browser."

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