📰 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
📰 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
📰 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
📰 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
📰 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
📰 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
📰 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
📰 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
📰 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
📰 News & Discussions localfirst.fm #26 — Adam Fish: Ditto, Realm (podcast episode) "The guest of this episode is Adam Fish, co-founder and CEO of Ditto, a end-to-end syncing platform with a focus on resilient connectivity. In this conversation Adam shares the origin story of Ditto, his prior related work
📰 News & Discussions Local-First Conf 2025 videos First batch of videos of talks from this year's Local-First Conf. My takeaways from this year's @localfirstconf.com Reflections from Adam Wiggins on Local-First Conf 2025. Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps "Inspired
📰 News & Discussions Technically Speaking: How $400 million Runs on a 25 Person Team "Let me first start off by saying, Linear has done something incredible and worthy of emulating. The reason I’m diving into the nuts and bolts of their sync engine is because I am inspired
This was a big week for local-first software with Local-First Conf 2025 taking place in Berlin, and a couple of significant releases dropping. 📰 News & Discussions Local First Conf 2025 Brief Notes and photos from all the talks at this week's Local-First Conf 2025 in Berlin. Meet #TanStack
📰 News & Discussions Local-First Conf 2025 (upcoming event) "Join us for the second edition of Local-First Conf. Connect with a rapidly-growing community in an intimate setting. This year, the conference spans 3 days. May 26th is dedicated to workshops and community sessions, while the following 2 days feature outstanding
📰 News & Discussions Exploring interoperability & composability for local-first software "This is the third exploration connecting local-first software with the AT Protocol (atproto). Previously, I explored how atproto can enable new functionality for local-first software by providing distribution and legibility. Now, I'll focus on interoperability and composability—
📰 News & Discussions Beyond the Cloud: The Local-First Software Revolution • Brooklyn Zelenka & Julian Wood • GOTO 2025 "Distributed systems researcher Brooklyn Zelenka unpacks the paradigm shift of local-first computing, where applications primarily run on users' devices and synchronize seamlessly without central servers." localfirst.fm #24 – Ben Holmes:
📰 News & Discussions LoFi/25 Community Meetup The LoFi/25 community meetup took place on Tuesday April 29th, 2025, with talks by Johannes Schickling ("Local-first event sourcing"), Alexander Komyagin ("Data API: AI-native developer toolkit"), and Henok Ademtew ("Running big language models on mobile and web&
📰 News & Discussions Making React Fun Again with Sync – Aaron Boodman, React Miami 2025 (talk video) "Aaron Boodman from Rocicorp discussing sync engines. April 18, 2025, React Miami." Building a serverless database replica with Carl Sverre (interview) "In this episode, Carl Sverre and I discuss why syncing
📰 News & Discussions Carl Sverre on "Storing small things in big places" (talk video) "Carl Sverre of SQLSync introduces Graft: an open-source transactional storage engine optimized for lazy, partial, and strongly consistent replication — perfect for edge, offline-first, and distributed applications." localfirst.fm #23 – Sujay Jayakar: Dropbox,
📰 News & Discussions Put your database in the browser with Ben Holmes (podcast episode) "Ben Holmes, product engineer at Warp, joins PodRocket to talk about local-first web apps and what it takes to run a database directly in the browser. He breaks down how moving data closer to the
📰 News & Discussions The Hard Things About Sync "Should you build or buy, or do you even need a sync engine at all? While there's no universal answer, I want to share my learnings from building a sync engine at Figma to help make sense of this