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SyncedStore
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Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud (2019)
This article has been quite the inspiration for many projects and progress on this front. I think we're seeing more and more developments around CRDTs and local-first frameworks / applications.
I'm working on a few projects in this area:
- https://www.typecell.org - Notion meets Notebook-style live programming for TypeScript / React
- https://www.blocknotejs.org - a rich text editor built on TipTap / Prosemirror that supports Yjs for local-first collaboration
- https://syncedstore.org - a wrapper around Yjs for easier development
In my experience so far, some things get more complicated when building a local-first application, and some things get a lot easier. What gets easier is that once you've modeled and implemented the data-layer (which does require you to rethink / unlearn a few principles), you don't need to worry about data-fetching, errors etc. as much as in a regular "API-based" app.
Another interesting video I recommend on this topic is about Linear's "Sync Engine" which employs some of the local-first techniques as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo2m3jaJixU
- SyncedStore - build CRDT-powered collaborative Vue apps for the web
- SyncedStore - build CRDT-powered collaborative React apps for the web
- SyncedStore - build multiplayer CRDT-powered collaborative apps for the web
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Show HN: SyncedStore CRDT – build multiplayer collaborative apps for React / Vue
Hi! Great questions :)
First of all, SyncedStore does not implement any CRDT algorithms. Credits for this go to Yjs [1] (and its author Kevin), which it uses as underlying CRDT.
Yjs and Automerge are (afaik) the two most commonly used CRDT implementations. Both have their pros and cons, but Yjs has focused a lot on performance [2].
Automerge has a bit friendlier "Immer style" [3] API. I'm not too familiar with @localfirst/state, but it seems to add a Redux style API on top of Automerge.
My approach with SyncedStore was really to provide an API on top of Yjs that's as simple as possible to use in React / Vue / Svelte or plain JS app. I.e.: only use a single React Hook to observe changes, and use regular Javascript assigments to update values. The API is inspired mostly by Reactive Programming libraries such as MobX [4] (from the same author as Immer).
Hope you're still following along :) Maybe it helps to compare the TODO-MVC applications, as both SyncedStore (https://github.com/YousefED/SyncedStore/tree/main/examples) and @localfirst/state (https://github.com/local-first-web/state/tree/main/examples/...) have implemented these as examples!
[1]: https://github.com/yjs/yjs
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Web Applications from the Future: A Database in the Browser
I’m exploring the ideas (an easy to use framework to build local-first [1] apps) in my library Reactive-CRDT (https://github.com/yousefed/reactive-crdt). Feedback welcome!
All credit for the underlying tech to YJS, which has been amazing as mentioned by others in this thread.
[1]: https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first.html
Immer
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Immer VS mutative - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 25 Jan 2024
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Show HN: Cami.js – A No Build, Web Component Based Reactive Framework
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It looks like it’s mutating, but both the reducers and update() uses immer* under the hood, so we still respect immutability under the hood.
Cami supports redux devtools so you can use that for time-travel debugging too!
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* https://github.com/immerjs/immer
- Why do we need modules at all?
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Making Sense of React Server Components
I heard that immutability libraries like immer.js [0] help with this. Anyone go this way and had good success? Is this 'the way'?
[0]: https://immerjs.github.io/immer/
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How We Fixed Performance With JS Object Variable Mutation
So, that's what we built, and we built it in the most obvious way — using JavaScript Proxy objects to track mutations and reflect those changes across Appsmith’s framework. Initially things looked good — it worked, aside from a few hacks to make some data types work with map and set, and we were following the example of other projects that had similar requirements. If it was good enough for them, it should be good enough for us, right?
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The sword refers to immer, the faster and stronger immutable data js tool limu stable version released!
But is immer really the ultimate answer? The performance problem of immer is more prominent in large arrays and deep-level object scenarios. See this issue description, many authors in the community began to try to make breakthroughs, and noticed that structura and mutative, I found that it is indeed many times faster than immer as they said, but it still fails to solve the problem of both fast speed and good development experience. I will analyze the two issues in detail below.
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Ramda: A practical functional library for JavaScript programmers
I like immer for this kind of thing: https://github.com/immerjs/immer
It gives you immutable updates without getting bogged down in FP abstractions.
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Why my variable is being mutated if I make any changes to my data ?
I've always been a huge fan of immer for these case. For your code, it would simply turn into setGridData((prev) => produce(prev, draft => applyChanges(changes, draft)) but I recommend you go over their documentation to fully understand how it works
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Is there a better way to do read-only types
If you're trying to make things actually immutable, Object.freeze and deep copies can clutter things up pretty good, have you considered using something like immer? (https://immerjs.github.io/immer/)
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5 React Libraries to Level Up your Projects in 2023
If you want to set up from Context, Zustand is your best bet. It offers an extremely simple API that lets you create a store with values and functions. Then, you can access that store from anywhere in your application to read and write values. Reactivity included! If you want to store nested object data in your store, consider using Immer alongside Zustand to easily change nested state.
What are some alternatives?
FluidFramework - Library for building distributed, real-time collaborative web applications
immutability-helper - mutate a copy of data without changing the original source
RxDB - A fast, local first, reactive Database for JavaScript Applications https://rxdb.info/
immutable-js - Immutable persistent data collections for Javascript which increase efficiency and simplicity.
automerge - A JSON-like data structure (a CRDT) that can be modified concurrently by different users, and merged again automatically.
redux-toolkit - The official, opinionated, batteries-included toolset for efficient Redux development
adama-lang - A headless spreadsheet document container service.
Recoil - Recoil is an experimental state management library for React apps. It provides several capabilities that are difficult to achieve with React alone, while being compatible with the newest features of React.
osmosis-js - JS reference implementation of Osmosis, a JSON data store with peer-to-peer background sync
react-query - 🤖 Powerful asynchronous state management, server-state utilities and data fetching for TS/JS, React, Solid, Svelte and Vue. [Moved to: https://github.com/TanStack/query]
y-websocket - Websocket Connector for Yjs
valtio - 💊 Valtio makes proxy-state simple for React and Vanilla