📰 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
📰 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