Going Local-First: A Primer
summary
Local‑first starts from a 2019 paper and promises fast no spinners UIs, multi‑device continuity, offline‑first behavior and user ownership of data. Practical route is using sync engines plus a local store (SQLite, Dexie, RxDB) and conflict‑free structures like CRDTs (Automerge, Yjs); examples include Linear (home‑grown sync engine), Anytype and Excalidraw. The field is young and fragmented but sync engines are the pragmatic first step toward instant, convergent collaboration.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction and motivation
- 1:48What is local-first
- 5:02Philosophy behind local-first
- 8:32Sync engines explained
- 13:09CRDTs and data types
- 16:44Local databases overview
- 19:35Q&A: Offline-first vs local-first
- 21:24Q&A: Applicability of local-first
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