I think an important requirement for making the "forever" aspect of local-first possible is to make the backend sync server available for local self-hosting. For example, we're building a local-first multiplayer "IDE for tasks and notes" [1] where simply syncing flat files won't work well for certain features we want to offer like real-time collaboration, permission controls and so on. In our case we'll simply... - Source: Hacker News / 7 days ago

[1]. Hopefully it's going to be useful for others working from their todo.txt/thoughts.txt! [1] https://thymer.com. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

We're working on an app [1] which needs to deal with this, but in general it also makes git less suitable for things like outliners or other collaborative text editors where people can work on lists, tables, and so on (structured data basically). [1] https://thymer.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

Nice outline of the various techniques. We've built something in-between the operation-based and delta-based approaches for our offline-first multiplayer "IDE for notes/tasks" [1]. In our case we have a central server which periodically creates snapshots. Although we don't do that right now, if needed, it could delete older operations from the log for space reasons. Except for the fact that replicas encrypt their... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

Right, there are quite some collaborative applications for which a hybrid approach is useful. We're building a collaborative editor (https://thymer.com) for example, where the underlying data structure is also a tree (as the text documents also support outliner-like features, so a flat list of characters/lines isn't enough). To avoid tree conflicts, insert and move operations look more like OT than CRDT however,... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

Crazy plot twist (last minute edit): As I was about to publish this post I discovered that Replicache is going to be opened sourced in the near future and that its parent company is planning to launch a new sync-engine called "Zero". Here is the official announcement. It reads: "We will be open sourcing Replicache and Reflect. Once Zero is ready, we will encourage users to move." Ironically, Zero seems to be yet... - Source: dev.to / 17 days ago

As the Monday began I started reading documentation and looking into the tech I wanted to use. For most of the stack I went with things I know. But for the multiplayer part I had to read up and understand the core concepts behind Replicache. While reading I came across their hosted service Reflect. This was a perfect fit as time was of the essence and I would not have to build my own Replicache backend! It's... - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago