TinyBase v2.0: reactive data store for local-first apps

Nice work. I love anything that makes local-first easier. I’ve been paying close attention to Dolt for this. In a perfect world I’d have the gut semantics from Dolt and EdgeQL from EdgeDB.

This focuses on the reactive feature - the ability to set listeners and get alerts. There seem to be some nice React integration, but haven’t built with React enough to immediately see what that unlocks.

Re: TinyBase v2.0: reactive data store for local-first apps

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Post by pbronez » Fri, Sep 16, 2022, 8:37 PM UTC

jamesgpearce wrote: post #2

Author here, if anyone has any thoughts or feedback. Bring it on!

Congratulations on shipping!

Can you explain your motive for focusing on the combination of reactive data and local deployment?

My first thought is that local-first = one user = I know what’s changing because I’m the only one using it. Perhaps valuable for monitoring external data feeds?

Re: TinyBase v2.0: reactive data store for local-first apps

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Post by 1egg0myegg0 » Fri, Sep 16, 2022, 9:24 PM UTC

jamesgpearce wrote: post #2

Author here, if anyone has any thoughts or feedback. Bring it on!

Howdy! What are the rough edges when persisting to a server? What are the gaps relative to something like PouchDB?

Re: TinyBase v2.0: reactive data store for local-first apps

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Post by fillest » Fri, Sep 16, 2022, 9:37 PM UTC

jamesgpearce wrote: post #2

Author here, if anyone has any thoughts or feedback. Bring it on!

The font is unreadable, very thin

Re: TinyBase v2.0: reactive data store for local-first apps

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Post by jzcoder » Fri, Sep 16, 2022, 9:50 PM UTC

fillest wrote: post #7

jamesgpearce wrote: post #2

Author here, if anyone has any thoughts or feedback. Bring it on!

The font is unreadable, very thin

I immediately close a page dense in text and using a thin font like Lato or Raleway.

Re: TinyBase v2.0: reactive data store for local-first apps

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Post by julienreszka » Fri, Sep 16, 2022, 9:58 PM UTC

fillest wrote: post #7

jamesgpearce wrote: post #2

Author here, if anyone has any thoughts or feedback. Bring it on!

The font is unreadable, very thin

I agree.

Re: TinyBase v2.0: reactive data store for local-first apps

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Post by pinum » Fri, Sep 16, 2022, 9:58 PM UTC

I looked into building something like this for a React Native app. (Actually I first considered the practicality of making a reactive version of sqlite... I decided it would be too complex and not something I'd want to use without upstream support).

We ended up doing something a bit more traditional/basic/manual, but this looks nice. It would definitely have been in consideration if it'd been available at the time, and I'll keep it in mind for future projects.