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Congratulations on shipping! Can you explain your motive for focusing on the combination of reactive data and local deployment? My first thought is that local
by pbronez 4y ago
Congratulations on shipping!
Can you explain your motive for focusing on the combination of reactive data and local deployment?
My first thought is that local-first = one user = I know what’s changing because I’m the only one using it. Perhaps valuable for monitoring external data feeds?
- jamesgpearce 4y agoYeah, I see your point. I've been assuming that local-first doesn't mean local-only. Even if it's just you, you could easily be polling something else to get data updates, as you suggest. (One original use case was a personal GitHub dashboard app that polled for new activity but provided local analytics). A couple of great essays I've enjoyed in this space are https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first & https://riffle.systems/essays/prelude/ https://riffle.systems/essays/prelude/ I feel it should be possible to build certain types of apps that can view, query, and manipulate denormalized data without even being online. (Perhaps I shouldn't over-glamorize those days when one used to jam Access databases into Windows apps, but hopefully you get the point.) Reactivity just serves as a nice binding paradigm.