2025.11.20

📰 News & Discussions

Convex raises $24M to reinvent backends

"Sync is a central part of Convex's vision. But when developers want instant, automatic, optimistic local interaction with their app data, we currently offer little help. We aim to ship a Convex-flavored take on local-first that will feel as intuitive and ergonomic as the rest of our product."

Johannes Schickling | Native-Grade Web Apps with Local-First Data | ViteConf 2025

"Johannes Schickling introduces LiveStore, a new local-first data layer designed to simplify the creation of high-performance, native-grade web apps by automatically syncing data with reactive SQLite and event sourcing"

PowerSync TanStack DB Collection

"We're excited to announce the release of @tanstack/powersync-db-collection, bringing PowerSync's powerful offline-first and multi-tab capable sync engine to the TanStack DB ecosystem."

🛠️ Tools & Resources

Count Cachula

"Local-first performance without the complexity 🧛 Stale-while-revalidate on steroids: instant UI updates with cache tags, invalidation, and smart preloading"

The Current State Of SQLite Persistence On The Web: November 2025 Update

"This post is intended to be a comprehensive view of the SQLite persistence in web browsers landscape."

Couchbase Mobile Delivers Major Advancements for Building Offline-First AI Applications at the Edge

"New features include JavaScript support, peer-to-peer sync advancements, XDCR support, and more." "Couchbase Lite peer-to-peer data sync allows teams to collaborate in real-time by sharing data between devices in local proximity without the need for internet connectivity."

Ominipg

"Ominipg is a flexible PostgreSQL toolkit for Deno that combines the power of PGlite (PostgreSQL in WASM) with a modern, developer-friendly API. Build local-first applications, use powerful CRUD operations with MongoDB-style filters, or integrate with your favorite ORM—all with full TypeScript type safety."

LiveStore Auth Example with TanStack Start, BetterAuth & Cloudflare

"I'm exploring how to implement authentication in local-first apps"

jazz-fuzzy

"I'm testing different ways to construct indexes on top of CRDT data structures using Jazz as my storage engine. Currently implemented Fuzzy search."

Observatory

"The Context Company does agent observability." "Local mode allows you to run The Context Company in a local-first way. This is 100% open-source and requires no account or API key."

Kaipsul MIRC

"Memory-Isolated Recursive Compression (MIRC). A local-first probabilistic compression utility for Apple Silicon." "MIRC is a document pre-processing tool that segments large texts into memory-isolated chunks, compresses them in parallel using on-device AI, and then reconstructs the compressed output."

✨ Apps

Nanocoder

"A local-first CLI coding agent that brings the power of agentic coding tools like Claude Code and Gemini CLI to local models or controlled APIs like OpenRouter. Built with privacy and control in mind, Nanocoder supports multiple AI providers with tool support for file operations and command execution."

The Janus Foundry

"It is not a chatbot. It is a local-first, open-source application for forging a persistent, co-evolving AI collaborator that you own and control."

Locu

"The whole app is powered by Replicache, which lets us sync all data across multiple platforms. It even makes it much easier to build features like Floating Notes, which work as a separate renderer window and sync notes between windows by design."

JotAha: Mental health tracking

"Privacy-First by design — no data selling, readable policy, local-first"

Zesfy

"A local-first daily planner app"

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