đź“° News & Discussions Sync Conf 2025 talk videos Videos of talk recordings from Sync Conf 2025 have been published on YouTube. Maybe we don't need a server "Have you heard of syncthing ? It syncs a folder between devices, like Dropbox, without the need for someone else'
📰 News & Discussions “The local-first rebellion”: How Home Assistant became the most important project in your house "Home Assistant is now running in more than 2 million households, orchestrating everything from thermostats and door locks to motion sensors and lighting. All on users’ own hardware, not the cloud. The
📰 News & Discussions Present your work at FOSDEM conference in Brussels "8 more days to submit your proposal to the Local-First devroom at the upcoming FOSDEM (biggest Free and Open Source conference in Europe)! Deadline is 5th of December. If you are into local first apps or frameworks and
đź“° 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
📰 News & Discussions TanStack DB 0.5 — Query-Driven Sync "We're releasing TanStack DB 0.5 today with Query-Driven Sync — a feature that fundamentally changes how you think about loading data." Syntax.fm #954: Fullstack TanStack! The Scoop with Tanner Linsley (podcast episode) "Wes and Scott
đź“° News & Discussions Sync Conf 2025 (upcoming event) "Sync Conf is a boutique conference on the future of real-time, collaborative, agentic software development." November 12th, San Francisco. Local-first mobile app meetup with Expo and InstantDB "Before SyncConf kicks off on November 12th, join a lot of the
đź“° News & Discussions LoFi/31 Community Meetup The LoFi/31 community meetup took place on Tuesday October 28th, 2025, with talks by Tim Hampson ("Local Data: Design is everything"), Pablo Mayrgundter ("Bldrs.ai: browser-based OSS CAD engine with AI integration"), and Yonatan Feleke ("Sync &
đź“° News & Discussions Reviewing the Turso Beta week "Turso, the rewrite of SQLite is now in Beta. We expect a production ready to be out in a matter of months. But it already has the right set of capabilities to show what modern databoxes need to offer." Fallout
đź“° News & Discussions Building native-grade web apps with synced data - Johannes Schickling @ ViteConf 2025 Talk by Johannes Schickling at ViteConf 2025. Currently available in live stream replay @ 05:32:00 (registration required). See also demo on X LiveStore Hands-on #2: Work Squared (upcoming event) "Continuing the real-time code
đź“° News & Discussions Triplit joins Supabase "With this acquisition, we're bringing Matt's deep expertise in the offline-first domain into our ecosystem. Our focus isn't to directly integrate Triplit into our platform. Instead, Matt will be working to expand third-party integrations at Supabase. Part
đź“° 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
📰 News & Discussions Why Local-First Apps Haven’t Become Popular? "When you build a local-first app, you’ve effectively created a distributed system. Multiple devices can mutate data independently, sometimes offline, and later must converge to the exact same state without losing data." See also HN discussion. A
📰 News & Discussions Speeding up PowerSync with a SQLite extension written in Rust "We’re already using a custom SQLite extension written in Rust to define a few virtual tables and SQL helper functions, so our idea was to expand that extension to include a client state machine for
📰 News & Discussions An Interactive Guide to TanStack DB "Learn what TanStack DB is, how it works, and why it might change the way you build apps." LiveStore Office Hours #5 "▪︎ Progress update on version 0.4 ▪︎ New Cloudflare Adapter (using Durable Objects) ▪︎ Community presentations (lots of
📰 News & Discussions The Future of Databases is Local-First "local-first should be the default standard for building apps, apps that aren’t disrupted by network issues, airplane mode, or any other variable we can’t control. If we want to deliver truly great user experiences, the database must be
đź“° News & Discussions LoFi/29 Community Meetup (talks/video) The LoFi/29 community meetup took place on Tuesday August 26th, with talks by Jan Lehnardt ("How to sync anything"), Mauve ("Peer to peer mapping with CoMapeo") and Alex Clemmer ("Building a truly offline-first, collaborative text
đź“° News & Discussions Work Now, Sync Later: Local-First Web Apps "I think sync engines are the future. These slides show why. Slides [...] that I just presented at KCDC." - @housecor Lessons learned from building a sync-engine and reactivity system with SQLite "Over the last couple of months,
Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole "In most instances the concept is beautifully simple: instead of your app being a fancy form that sends data to a server, it has it’s own local database. Sometimes the server is just another client to sync with. It can
đź“° News & Discussions Local-first search "Local-first applications do have major benefits for users but I think the DX claims fall off a cliff as your application grows in complexity or volume of data. In other words, the more state your app manages, the harder your life as a developer
đź“° News & Discussions LoFi/28 Community Meetup (talks/video) The LoFi/28 community meetup took place on Tuesday July 29th, with talks by David Fahlander ("Why I Built Dexie"), Carl Sverre ("Replication three ways: logical, physical and Graft") and Jay Meistrich ("High performance local-first with
📰 News & Discussions Offline-first Architecture - How to survive without the internet? - Zixuan Liu & Ahlam Aatif "During this presentation, we’ll share our insights from building a complex ticketing application based on offline-first architecture, discuss the challenges encountered along the way, and highlight some of the solutions
đź“° News & Discussions Local-first web application architecture "This architecture would be a cloud vendor's worst nightmare if it ever became popular, as they cannot earn a dime from it (aside from the basic cloud drive pennies). Thankfully for them, it is impossible to monetize for the company
đź“° News & Discussions Local-first software (2019) - Hacker News The Local-First Software essay by Ink & Switch did the rounds on Hacker News again and generated a lot of discussion. Extreme Native Perf on the Web with Superhuman - Syntax.fm #918 (podcast episode) "Wes and Scott talk with
đź“° News & Discussions Practical Local-First Software with Automerge - Peter van Hardenberg (talk video) "In this talk, we'll learn about local-first software: what it is, how it works, and when does and doesn't makes sense, and we'll also build a simple application with