#5 – Kyle Mathews: Benefits of using a sync engine, personal local-first apps, ElectricSQL

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Mar 13, 2024

Kyle Matthews discusses the benefits of using a sync engine for building local-first apps, talks about his experiences in developing personal apps, and explores the challenges and advantages of adopting new technology in the app development space.

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INSIGHT

Sync Engines: Declarative Data Fetching

Sync engines shift data fetching from imperative to declarative.
Declare the data needed for a page, and the engine provides it, simplifying updates.

ANECDOTE

Kitchen AI App

Kyle built a kitchen AI app that uses photos of ingredients to suggest recipes and generate shopping lists.
The app uses embeddings for fuzzy matching of ingredients and categorizes items by grocery store sections.

INSIGHT

Data-Centric Prototyping

Local-first development, with tools like ElectricSQL, makes databases easy to set up and use from the start.
This data-centric approach simplifies prototyping and eliminates data inconsistencies between development and production.

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