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Top 23 offline-first Open-Source Projects
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react-boilerplate
:fire: A highly scalable, offline-first foundation with the best developer experience and a focus on performance and best practices.
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SurveyJS
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.
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berty
Berty is a secure peer-to-peer messaging app that works with or without internet access, cellular data or trust in the network
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WorkOS
The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
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Store
A Kotlin Multiplatform library for building network-resilient applications (by MobileNativeFoundation)
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sqlsync
SQLSync is a collaborative offline-first wrapper around SQLite. It is designed to synchronize web application state between users, devices, and the edge.
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SyncedStore
SyncedStore CRDT is an easy-to-use library for building live, collaborative applications that sync automatically.
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client-side-databases
An implementation of the exact same app in Firestore, AWS Datastore, PouchDB, RxDB and WatermelonDB
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redwood
A highly-configurable, distributed, realtime database that manages a state tree shared among many peers. (by brynbellomy)
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InfluxDB
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Project mention: Stay Ahead of the Game Must Have Front-End Boilerplates and Starter Kits for Every Developer | dev.to | 2023-09-06Clone this repo using git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/react-boilerplate/react-boilerplate.git
Project mention: Show HN: Collaborate on your YC Application with CRDT-powered forms | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-21
Project mention: A deep-dive on a Progressive Web App implementation for a React-based App Platform (DHIS2) | dev.to | 2023-08-22We use the Workbox library and its utilities as a foundation for our service worker.
Project mention: Tips on how to structure your home directory (2023) | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-19
Project mention: Show HN: Anytype multi-player: local-first, P2P, encrypted collaboration | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-25WIth every architectural choice we aim to make fundamental digital freedoms unconditional. Here you can read more about why - cloud vs. local first Internet [2].
[1] https://anytype.io/
If you're looking for a very real use case of SQLite in the browser, there's SQLSync[1]. It was recently discussed on HN[2].
[1]: https://sqlsync.dev/posts/stop-building-databases/, https://sqlsync.dev/
Project mention: Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud (2019) | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-10-02This 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
There is an open issue about it. Looks like there's still some work to do
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
offline-first related posts
- VNote: A pleasant note-taking platform
- A future for SQL on the web (2021)
- Show HN: Anytype – local-first, P2P knowledge management
- Your Favorite Note Taking App
- I need project/task management tool that I can self host
- Drag note to notebook
- Feature request - nested collapsible sections
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A note from our sponsor - SurveyJS
surveyjs.io | 26 Apr 2024
Index
What are some of the best open-source offline-first projects? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
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| 1 | react-boilerplate | 29,350 |
| 2 | gun | 17,784 |
| 3 | yjs | 15,150 |
| 4 | workbox | 12,088 |
| 5 | berty | 7,298 |
| 6 | offline-plugin | 4,503 |
| 7 | hoodie | 4,394 |
| 8 | TagSpaces | 3,400 |
| 9 | Store | 3,064 |
| 10 | offline-first | 3,038 |
| 11 | anytype-ts | 2,827 |
| 12 | remotestorage.js | 2,289 |
| 13 | sqlsync | 1,717 |
| 14 | SyncedStore | 1,618 |
| 15 | search-index | 1,368 |
| 16 | ObjectBox Go Database | 1,032 |
| 17 | replicache | 924 |
| 18 | objectbox-dart | 912 |
| 19 | Boutique | 871 |
| 20 | client-side-databases | 840 |
| 21 | redwood | 839 |
| 22 | kolibri | 733 |
| 23 | earthstar | 609 |
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