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- Sync Engines Are the Future
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Electric (Postgres sync engine) BETA release
Hey, it's possible to use PGlite on the client, along with Drizzle. Our "Linearlite" example show this (albeit without Drizzle) with a "write through the database" pattern to sync back to the server.
Live demo: http://linearlite.examples.electric-sql.com
Code: https://github.com/electric-sql/electric/tree/main/examples/...
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Phoenix LiveView 1.0.0 is here
https://hexdocs.pm/electric_phoenix/Electric.Phoenix.html
So you can have local-first sync in a Phoenix app using Electric. And you can use Electric to sync data into a LiveView using Phoenix.Streams, which is a very natural fit.
We have a couple of example apps showing things in action:
- https://github.com/electric-sql/electric/tree/main/examples/...
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Comparing local-first frameworks and approaches
More examples of local-first with ElectricSQL can be found in the examples directory of their repo. https://github.com/electric-sql/electric/tree/main/examples
- Postgres.new: In-browser Postgres with an AI interface
- Graph-Based Ceramics
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Local First, Forever
"syncing doesn’t work without a server"
I don't think this is true, granted there are some big challenges to transfering data between devices without a central server, but there are several projects like https://dxos.org/ which use p2p, and also there's https://ditto.live/ which uses bluetooth/wifi direct for cases where all users will be in the same room or on the same local network (imagine wanting to play chess with a friend sitting in a different row on a plane without wifi - I was in this situation recently and was pretty surprised that I couldn't find anything on the app store that could do this!)
Of course most of the time its better to have a server because p2p still has a lot of difficulties and often having a central 'source of truth' is worth the costs that come with a server based architecture. So imo things like https://electric-sql.com/ or https://www.triplit.dev/ or the upcoming https://zerosync.dev/ will be far better choices for anyone wanting to build a local first app used by many users.
- Running PHP Fast at the Edge with WebAssembly
- PostgreSQL Comes to Firebase
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Ask HN: How Can I Make My Front End React to Database Changes in Real-Time?
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!
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electric-sql/electric is an open source project licensed under Apache License 2.0 which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of electric is Elixir.
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