Offline First

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Argues that apps must treat offline as the default and connectivity as an enhancement, showing a concrete stack: a front end that only talks to the hoodie store API, local browser storage syncing to CouchDB via a sync engine, and eventual replication so changes are queued and delivered with eventual consistency. Gives field evidence (Africa trip, ~40-person workshops), examples (rail ticket app failing on trains, people screenshotting views), UI problems (save vs sync, message reordering) and tools and tradeoffs.

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" chapters (11)

1. 0:00Intro
2. 1:05How we work
3. 8:25Normality is imperfect
4. 10:28Offline First
5. 11:35Offline Architecture
6. 26:08App preemption
7. 27:28Google Maps
8. 28:53Challenges
9. 33:02Performance
10. 34:47Data
11. 40:06Outro

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