126: James Long - Building Distributed Local-First JavaScript Applications

How do you keep data synchronized between two different clients when all of the data is stored locally instead of in the cloud?

Understanding conflict-free replicated data types and how they help when building distributed applications

Diving deep into how messages are replayed across clients when network access becomes available to achieve consistent state

Using a Merkle tree to efficiently compare the message store from two clients to know which messages need to be synchronized

Considerations you need to make when structuring your data to enable eventual consistency

What it might look like to move an app like Actual to an offline-first web app where you can't use things like SQLite