Ad-hoc offline or sync support invariably goes wrong in important ways that lead to persistent missing or incorrect data and data loss. It’s something that need

Ad-hoc offline or sync support invariably goes wrong in important ways that lead to persistent missing or incorrect data and data loss. It’s something that needs to be designed in from the start, and it necessarily takes the form of a data-oriented API, entirely opposed to what this article is suggesting (UI-oriented). If your main UI needs to work offline or with sync, you can’t use a UI-oriented backend.