Falcor, conceptually, is a really great and exciting idea. However it seems either too disconnected from existing tooling / too theoretical. Meanwhile, I've bee

Falcor, conceptually, is a really great and exciting idea. However it seems either too disconnected from existing tooling / too theoretical. Meanwhile, I've been working on an Open Source Firebase alternative for a few years now, and I decided to go ahead and implement (what, in obviously IMHO) is a better version of the idea. Recently somebody combined it with webcomponents/polymer, which is pretty awesome. Here is an example they use for realtime IoT temperature data viz, you drop in `<gun-ui-lcd parent="livingroom" prop="temperature"></gun-ui-lib>` and it automatically tells the system to ONLY load `temperature` from the `livingroom` database. More info, along with a cool animated gif showing the example off in action, is here: https://github.com/Stefdv/gun-ui-lcd#syncing https://github.com/Stefdv/gun-ui-lcd#syncing . More generally, the way it works is this: Imagine we have some document, like ``` { name: "Alice", age: 27, pet: { name: "Fluffy", age: 4 } } ``` all we have to do is ``` Gun(serverURL).get('alice').path('pet.name').on(age => ui.show('#pet-age', age)) ``` This makes it easy to bind with React, or Angular, or VueJS, or others. The important thing to note is, like Falcor, it only loads the 1 property, not the full document. If you want to show another item, it is trivial to just add `...get('alice').path('age').on(age => ui.show('#age', age))`. I've already made a prototype which automatically generates the loading the properties based off of a plain HTML template. Hopefully I'll have it published in the next couple months. Meaning all you have to do is add a property to your HTML, and it automatically binds realtime updates of data to that view! (No writing JS).