A Local-First Case Study
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Local-First & Ejectable
An important requirement to ensure you can fully access your data in cloud apps forever is making the backend sync server available for local self-hosting. Thatβs what EJECTABLE apps are about.
weeklyfoo #77 / 2025-03-24Local, first, forever
Thinking about a persistence service that stays longer than the average service.
weeklyfoo #39 / 2024-07-01Resilient Sync for Local First
Syncing data in a local first context is not trivial but manageable.
weeklyfoo #39 / 2024-07-01Sync Engines are the Future
The modern browser is an OS. Modern web app is a distributed app. So any web app developer is facing a well-known, well-understood, notoriously hard problem: syncing data.
weeklyfoo #77 / 2025-03-24What Every Developer Should Know About Offline-First Apps
Why Local-First Software Is the Future and what are its Limitations
Imagine a web app that behaves seamlessly even with zero internet access, provides sub-millisecond response times, and keeps most of the userβs data on their device. This is the local-first or offline-first approach.
weeklyfoo #76 / 2025-03-17