Sync Engine

• https://x.com/martin_casado/status/1834446474241032703?s=19
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=VLgmjzERT08
  • Local first app
  • commit changes to local storage
  • and use a sync engine to sync those changes to the backend
  • backend can accept or reject the changes

Benefits:

• developer productivity
  • no need for api calls, error handling
  • quick iteration: devs can implement features in client side only without sync. And at last can write the server side code & db schema.
• Sever load
  • server load is greatly reduces
  • The first time the app is started, it has to load all the state. But after that every page load doesn't add load to the server
  • The first time load is a one time event, and can be managed by caching and other means

Also see

• Local First Conference for related ideas.
• https://stack.convex.dev/sync