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Love the idea and the community aspect! The issue with local first web dev in my experience is two fold: 1. It's super hard. The problem of syncing data is su
by staticelf 2y ago
Love the idea and the community aspect!
The issue with local first web dev in my experience is two fold:
1. It's super hard. The problem of syncing data is super hard to solve and there is little support from modern tooling. Mostly because it differs vastly on how you should handle it from app to app.
2. Very few that live in the west or people who pay for software are offline in longer stretches. There is simply very little to no requests for making apps work offline. I would argue to opposite that it probably is mostly bad business because you will get stuck on technical details due to #1 being so hard to solve. Even people who say they will use the app offline are never offline in my experience (from working on a real app that worked offline).
I work on an app that has clear offline benefits, although, pretty much no one will use it offline in practice and where I live, people have 5G access nowadays even at places that used to be offline, aka trains, tunnels etc. Even so, I plan to make my app offline supported but only after I have success with it.