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Local First, Forever

We explore how to build local-first sync on top of simple file storage

With CRDT, we can solve conflicts by opening both files, merging states, and saving back to state.xml. Now, the operations log can grow quite long, and we can’t count on Dropbox to reliably and efficiently sync only parts of the file that were updated. If you set out to build a local-first application that users have complete control and ownership over, you need something to solve data sync.

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