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Thanks for the chuckle :D And of course you use nixos :]

That could be interesting! Curious: are you taking about a plain object spread, or are you talking about JSX spreads? The latter has more overhead. Also, which JS engine? BTW. I re…

Appreciated!

Thanks! There's a preliminary PR with a discussion here: https://github.com/facebook/hermes/pull/933 (and broader context here: https://github.com/facebook/hermes/issues/811 ). But…

Browser-based apps have use cases even when you reject PWAs generally as a replacement for native apps. Trying out a new tool quickly, or short-term when using a tool with a custom…

IndexedDB is a joke of a database. Yes, it can store data, and you can create a very simple index, so it's _technically_ a database… But its ability to express queries is borderlin…

You can use multiple tabs but to have more than one write to the DB and not be overwritten relies on (online) sync. The problem is that Watermelon assumes a consistent view of the …

IndexedDB is a _bad_ API, and making many small read/write operations on it is absurdly slow. This is one of the reasons why WatermelonDB on web only uses IDB as a dumb storage med…

You’re not wrong

not very familiar with apollo, but I don't see why not. But just be aware that Watermelon works best as a full local database copy (that synchronizes with the server), not just a c…

No, Watermelon is a local app database. But you can plug it into a sync engine to synchronize with the server (and then from the server to another device) — it's up to you

It's possible, but Watermelon is specifically designed to be a local database, not meant to run on a server.

Not familiar with either Gun or Vue. I'll look into the former, and as for the latter — Watermelon does not actually depend on React. If one can supply a way to hook an RxJS observ…

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17960347 Sync is mostly there, but undocumented :/ Coming soon…

That's a fair description, yeah!

I'll be really curious to hear your feedback on GH if you try it. We've been using it internally in dev for a year, but we've just released this as open source, so there's probably…

Yes! Planning to release a few helper functions and document exactly what the procedure is to synchronize with a server. Internally, we know it works.

It's easy to be cynical on HN, but to the best of my knowledge, no other solution for React Native checks all the boxes we need. And it's not like reinventing the wheel (it still u…

A mobile app database. It can probably scale to hundreds of thousands too, but very few apps and very few users of such apps would actually have THAT much data. The point is that m…

Yep, if you can support some (relatively basic) queries, and CRUD operations, you can plug in essentially any database, and bridge on any platform. Think Electron, SQLite on native…

Agreed! IDB is simpler in some ways, but having a real relational database is a lot better for many advanced applications — and also can be more easily used for porting to differen…

I'm not an expert at Realm, so I might get some details wrong, but briefly: - You can't run Realm on the web (not as a database, offline), but you can with Watermelon - Realm is _a…

Yeah :/ There used to be this thing called Web SQL (which really… was SQLite)… but… people didn't like it and it didn't catch on. So on the web, Watermelon uses LokiJS, which isn't…