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electric
Local-first sync layer for web and mobile apps. Build reactive, realtime, local-first apps directly on Postgres.
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We've been using https://github.com/electric-sql/electric for the past month or so and it's been great. Rather than make you think about CRDTs explicitly, Electric syncs an in-browser sqlite db (WASM powered) with a central postgres instance in real time. As a developer, you get local-first performance and real-time sync between users. And it's actually faster to ship an application without writing any APIs and just using the database directly. Only downside is Electric is immature and we often run into bugs, but as a startup we're willing to deal with it in exchange for shipping faster.
This is the WASM blob and it's 1.1 MB uncompressed. https://github.com/rhashimoto/wa-sqlite/blob/master/dist/wa-.... No issues - it's cached by cloudflare.
We're using IndexedDB. Here's a writeup on alternatives https://github.com/rhashimoto/wa-sqlite/issues/85 and a benchmark https://rhashimoto.github.io/wa-sqlite/demo/benchmarks.html
SQLite had 2 bugs[1] where batch atomic writes would corrupt your DB if you used IndexedDB to back your VFS. It has been patched in SQLite so rolling a new electric release that pulls in the latest SQLite build should fix that.
[1] - https://github.com/vlcn-io/js/issues/31#issuecomment-1785296...