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Replicache is the company blog at replicache.dev, writing about web, programming and startups. Since 2020, 24 different Hacker News readers have linked it 38 times, most often “Replicache: Easy Offline-First for Existing Applications”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
Replicache's homepage for its sync library for offline-first web apps. HN commenters mostly list it alongside other local-first tools or cite it as a product, rather than discussing its writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 32 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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- Replicache: Easy Offline-First for Existing Applications18 people · 25 mentions · first linked 2020-01-28
- /6 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2020-06-16
What Hacker News says?
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on “I pwned half of America's fast food chains simultaneously”Submitted Replicache: Easy Offline-First for Existing Applications as a story · 111 points
HN discussionI'm grossly over simplifying but I've always thought a cut down version of Replicache[1] functionality would be an amazing logical progression for LiveView. With Phoenix.Component[2] introducing attributes it's perhaps closer to being feasible. [1] https://replicache.dev [2] https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_live_view/Phoenix.LiveComponent.h...
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on “Phoenix LiveView 1.0.0 is here”Submitted A JavaScript framework to build offline-first but collaborative webapp as a story · 41 points
HN discussionin case anyone finds this useful, here's the slowly growing collection of links to similar tools: https://tinybase.org/ https://www.evolu.dev/ https://replicache.dev/ https://fireproof.storage/ https://vlcn.io/ https://www.instantdb.com/ https://loro.dev/ https://electric-sql.com/ https://docs.y-sweet.dev/ https://syncedstore.org/docs/ https://collabs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://remotestorage.io/ https://rxdb.…
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on “Stop syncing everything”Submitted Building an incredible UX as a one-person startup as a story · 11 points
HN discussionLike https://replicache.dev/ ?
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on “Penpot, Open Source Figma alternative, raises $8M in funding”Submitted Easily Add Offline-First to Any Application as a story · 6 points
HN discussionTo answer your specific questions: > What if the data I need isn’t in the cache? The developer can arrange for all the data to be in the cache if the want that part of the app to be fully offline capable. > What happens when I edit things offline then come online later? Zero won't support offline mutation at launch, but there's nothing preventing it from working. It is built on [Replicache]( https://replicache.dev )…
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on “Show HN: One – A new React framework unifying web, native and local-first”Submitted Replicache: Client-side sync framework for realtime, collaborative web apps as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHi Joseph, There is a lot of debate about this in the community. People like pvh, adam wiggins, and johannes have all said they consider Replicache and Zero part of the local-first movement [1] and that they would be sad if we and other things like us weren't in it. I was even invited to speak at local-first conf, where we announced Zero last May. [2] I think in practice delivering on the local-first ideals is ultim…
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on “Show HN: One – A new React framework unifying web, native and local-first”Submitted How we rebuilt Linear's client-side filter UI using Replicache and local data as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSince you mentioned Dolt, I will add Noms [1], which is the original db that Dolt is based on. The folks that created Noms are working now on Replicache [2]. I started using Noms in my project and the offline first tech is really wonderful; it allows me to do some cool stuff like syncing clients only when they come online. 1. https://github.com/attic-labs/noms 2. https://replicache.dev
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on “Recently minted database technologies that I find intriguing”There is a lot of movement in the offline-first/multiplayer space at the moment, after apps like Linear [1] & Figma [2] have pushed the paradigms. [1]: https://linear.app [2]: https://figma.com Some other projects which will help you implement the pattern that are worth checking out: Replicache [3] - real-time sync for any backend. Works via simple push and pull end points and is built by a small team of 3 devs with…
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on “Offline First”I want to build local first software backed by EdgeDB. Similar to these tools: - https://replicache.dev - https://github.com/tantaman/conflict-free-sqlite - https://aphrodite.sh I wonder if EdgeDB provides any utilities to make this already perhaps? Or community has to build some kind of CRDT software that builds on top of EdgeDB that will do local syncing? Maybe that's planned to be tackled for 3.0?
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on “EdgeDB 2.0”FYI, some of us have started working on https://replicache.dev/ instead, which shares some DNA with Noms. But it's not decentralized.
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on “The database I wish I had”I think what you want is probably https://replicache.dev/
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on “Supabase – Realtime: Multiplayer Edition”Not much more to say other than Noms was my favorite project ( https://github.com/attic-labs/noms ) for a while until acquisition and the engineers are now the ones behind Replicache ( https://replicache.dev/ ). I think this is going to be the next "Realm" that works everywhere.
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on “Downsides of Offline First”Check out https://replicache.dev and https://github.com/attic-labs/noms
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on “Immudb 1.0 – open-source, immutable database with SQL and verified timetravel”Replicache ( https://replicache.dev/ ) and clientdb ( https://clientdb.dev/ ) are the only productized versions of this architecture I'm aware of (please do let me know if anyone is aware of others!). But the architecture itself has been used successfully in a bunch of apps, most notable of which is probably Linear ( https://linear.app/docs/offline-mode , I remember watching an early video of their founder explainin…
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on “The Future of the Web Is on the Edge”Yes! I have long felt like there are CRDTs possible that maintain complex application invariants (that is, have transactions). But when I sat down to think about it I realized that CRDTs make the problem far harder than it needs to be for today's software. CRDTs are designed for when there is no central authority, where all nodes are peers. But most software is not peer-to-peer, it's client/server and does in fact h…
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on “Local-First Software (2019)”I think that's the future of making web apps working fast. Trying to build some things now with Replicache ( https://replicache.dev ) and Logux ( https://logux.io ). Replicache is a paid service though so trying to make it work with Logux ideally together with a SolidJS app I am building.
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on “Local-First Software (2019)”The recent evolution of JS frameworks has been really nice. Performance is basically getting identical to desktop. The three recent developments I've noticed: - "Islands" in Deno https://fresh.deno.dev/ and https://remix.run/ where only small isolated parts get hydrated, instead of the whole page - Using http://linear.app style data-flows ala Replicache ( https://replicache.dev/ ) where JSON data is preloaded for al…
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on “JavaScript hydration is a workaround, not a solution”They had the licensing requirement until very recently but dropped it since they're now working on Zero (which looks awesome, but we're happy with Replicache for now). I think the docs may not be updated everywhere but see the "status" section on their homepage: https://replicache.dev/
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on “Show HN: Leaflet.pub – a web app for creating and sharing rich documents”Everybody is focused on literally replicating the data model and using SQL which obviously won't work. But the idea is directionally correct. Replicate the subset of data the user has access to and wants locally and work on it disconnected, then sync changes asynchronously to server. This is difficult, but necessary for fully responsive and collaborative applications. Check out https://replicache.dev for a productiz…
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on “Don’t we all just want to use SQL on the front end?”This looks really cool, love seeing more innovation in this space! At first glance this seems to be mostly targeted towards single-user apps where each user would have their own database that can be sync'ed to a remote server, but still isolated from data for other users, similar to the CouchDB+PouchDB model? At least it looks that way since I couldn't see anything around authorization and conflict resolution. Not t…
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on “TinyBase v2.0: reactive data store for local-first apps”The keystrokes edit the local in-memory state and are synchronized in batches to the server and other collaborators. Learn more here: https://replicache.dev/
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on “Next.js Live: Code in the Browser with ESM, ServiceWorkers, Replicache, and WASM”Congratulations on the launch, it looks great! Just from a curiosity standpoint, how does this compare to something like https://replicache.dev/
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on “Liveblocks: Add real‑time collaboration to your product in minutes”Hi all, if you login with Github on desktop, you'll see a multiplayer experience built with https://replicache.dev and webgl. I can't answer questions about the (absurdly epic) webgl stuff. That's https://twitter.com/0xca0a . But happy to answer questions about the multiplayer. As an overview, this uses an upcoming version of Replicache that has been upgraded to support high rate collaborative experiences. The curre…
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on “Show HN: Collaborative event registration with WebGL and WebSockets”Linear.app has shown that a web-powered desktop app can be as fast as a native desktop app. There's still tons of room to make web powered desktop apps better than the current mainstream Electron ones - without abandoning the browser. There's a commercial project that's trying to make linear's architecture into a framework: https://replicache.dev/ Demo: https://repliear.herokuapp.com/d/lXsPEs2kl6?view=active
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on “Desktop Apps with Deno”
