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Reverse engineering of Linear's sync engine
A reverse engineering of Linear's sync engine for learning purposes. Endorsed by Linear's CTO. - wzhudev/reverse-linear-sync-engine
Unlike most mainstream local-first applications that use CRDTs, Linear's collaboration model aligns more closely with OT, as it relies on a centralized server to establish the order of all transactions. At the end of the bootstrapping process, after the persisted transactions are loaded, the client establishes a WebSocket connection to the server to receive incremental updates, or delta packets. The final phase of bootstrapping involves establishing a WebSocket connection to the server to receive incremental updates after loading persisted transactions from the local database.
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