Yeah, 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 da

Yeah, 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.