Challenges of Offline Support in Local-First Applications

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This chapter explores the intricacies of implementing offline support in applications, focusing on local-first design and the critical issue of data synchronization once connectivity is regained. The discussion underscores the necessity of achieving strong eventual consistency for a smooth user experience across various clients.

In 2022, Stefan Li and Stew Fortier envisioned a document editor with language model features built in. They founded Type.ai, received backing from Y Combinator, and have since been at the frontier of building a next-generation document editor. However, to ensure a robust and performant frontend, Type.ai needed to take advantage of many modern browser features.

Stefan Li is the CTO of Type.ai, and he joins the show to talk about the state of frontend dev, the service worker API, IndexedDB, the SharedWorker interface, Web Locks, and more.

Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the founder and CTO of Mailpass. Previously, Gregor was a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance and general software engineering companies. He has been based in Asia Pacific for almost a decade and can be found via his profile at vand.hk.