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79 // Read-later apps with Tristan Homsi and Dan Doyon

Metamuse

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The Importance of Synchronization in Reader

Parsing only works online because if I save a web link somehow, I don't know, I had it in my copy paste buffer into my read later app and I'm offline. So that's why we kind of tried to say offline first rather than local first. We actually just set it on a very simple syncing solution. Basically, a user will make a change locally. The whole local state is basically just JavaScript objects, JavaScript arrays, etc. And just the JSON patches, which are there's still going to be some conflict sometimes if you do some stuff offline and then change the same data on a different client. so we can kind of just do last right almost always wins

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