Your web app but good

• Conference Talk by Aaron Boodman about Replicache
• Given at the Local-First Conference (2024)

Notes

• The web is complicated
• Why are sync engines (LoFi) not getting massive adoption
• Partial sync too hard for users in Replicache's experience
  • Needed because you can't keep all data locally all the time
• Caching is hard, but 80/20 rule on what you pull data down
• What if you had a query language (YEEEEESSSSS)
  • Called Replicache Zero
  • Expressed as SQL
  • Keeps up to 100MB in device
  • "Hybrid search"
  • General purpose solution
  • Also runs server side and for SSR (it's just another replica)
• Live demo
  • Built a Linear clone
• Mssively reduces the amount of code that you have to write