volt VS electric

Hey there! I’m Grinder, the community manager of Dimension. Dimension is an awesome project that has published a ton of useful open source projects, such as fleet and volt. You can view our Github for all our projects that we’ve released.

We’ve created awesome things, such as fleet and volt.

Bun written in Zig and Volt written in Rust both claim to be faster than npm/Yarn/pnpm. I did not benchmark these new package managers yet.

I'm Tejas, a 15 year old developer. I currently code in Rust and Python, and am building Volt and previously released Electric.

The best part? Volt is open source https://github.com/voltpkg/volt! If you would like to support Volt development or find the project interesting, a ⭐ would be hugely appreciated!

I'm interested in this problem also!

I think there is a large overlap with projects that market/focus on offline-first experiences.

AFAIK this problem can be solved by:

1) Considering a client-side copy of the database that gets synced with the remote DB. This is an approach [PowerSync](https://www.powersync.com/) and [ElectricSql](https://electric-sql.com/) and [rxdb](https://rxdb.info/) take!

Yeah I agree with it being an exaggeration. They are certainly riding the admittedly dated perception that realtime is so hard it's only available to the Googles and Figmas. But there's now some amazing open source solutions available like Y.js and ElectricSQL[1]. The barrier has certainly come down.

[1] https://github.com/electric-sql/electric

https://github.com/electric-sql/electric :

> ElectricSQL is a local-first software platform that makes it easy to develop high-quality, modern apps with instant reactivity, realtime multi-user collaboration and conflict-free offline support.

> Local-first is a new development paradigm where your app code talks directly to an embedded local database and data syncs in the background via active-active database replication. Because the app code talks directly to a local database, apps feel instant. Because data syncs in the background via active-active replication it naturally supports multi-user collaboration and conflict-free offline

"SQLedge: Replicate Postgres to SQLite on the Edge" (2023)

Yup, this is correct.

We have had some requests / discussions around adding hooks to the sync service that will support custom logic on the write path (as per https://github.com/electric-sql/electric/discussions/565). This seems like a good idea but they don't exist yet.