Local-First Software:You Own Your Data, in Spite of the Cloud (2019 PDF)

• automerge

  45 3,110 9.1 JavaScript

  A JSON-like data structure (a CRDT) that can be modified concurrently by different users, and merged again automatically.

  

• automerge-rs

  12 1,018 9.8 JavaScript

  Discontinued Rust implementation of automerge [Moved to: https://github.com/automerge/automerge]

  

I assume you are following

https://github.com/automerge/automerge-rs

I'm hoping this matures a bit more in the next months, seems really promising.

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• relational-pouch

  1 403 2.3 TypeScript

  Store relational data in PouchDB/CouchDB

  

I did struggle with representing a graph and put that on ice. Though I only tried it with "raw" pouchdb, and researching this right now I found a plugin that supports many-to-many relationships[1].

[1]: https://github.com/pouchdb-community/relational-pouch#many-t...

• earthstar

  5 609 4.8 TypeScript

  Storage for private, distributed, offline-first applications.

  

Have you seen Earthstar?

https://github.com/earthstar-project/earthstar

It's like localStorage but it syncs and can be used for collaborative apps.

The point is to avoid the economic incentives of commercially supported software, though, so indeed it's made by volunteers in their spare time.

Suggest a related project