Electric (Postgres sync engine) beta release

Post by alco » Thu, Dec 12, 2024, 2:47 PM UTC

dikei wrote: post #70

thruflo wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/firebase-tools?activeTab=depen...

Ok, so PGLite is used in the Firebase Data Connect's emulator: a test utility, not even the client library. It's a bit disingenuous to lump it in the same sentence and try to mislead user that Google's adopting Electric.

From https://firebase.google.com/docs/data-connect/data-connect-e...:

> Firebase Data Connect provides you with a local emulator for end-to-end prototyping as well as continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) flows

Developers at Google have chosen PGLite for those qualities so that users of Firebase Data Connect had better CI/CD workflows. It wouldn't be fair to say this is an insignificant use case.

Post by gejose » Fri, Dec 20, 2024, 7:29 PM UTC

kylemathews wrote: post #60

gejose wrote: post #56

Hey this is great to see, congrats on the launch! I've been researching 'local first' solutions like electric recently and tried out powersync, triplit and instant for now. All three of these solve for both reading and writing to databases, with offline support. Wondering if you have plans to support writes too.

Check out our guide on writes — https://electric-sql.com/docs/guides/writes There's a variety of valid patterns for writes & we don't want to be prescriptive about how you do them. We aim instead to help you easily use Electric with your preferred/required write pattern. It's possible we'll write our own write library but it's equally likely we'll continue to find it better to partner with other projects building exc…

Super exciting! I've been following LiveStore development, and been looking forward to a beta launch. I didn't know Electric was sponsoring LiveStore.

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