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I've been hanging local-first circles but haven't made to switch to write anything with it yet. Is there a typical stack people recommend to get started? I'm not really sure where to start, especially in terms of backend.

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I’m biased as one of the authors of Y-Sweet, but I think Jake’s choice of Yjs + Y-Sweet is as good as any to start with. We’ve worked a lot at making the localhost environment easy to get started with, and Yjs is the de facto CRDT with the most written about it.

https://github.com/jamsocket/y-sweet

I'd like to start with something that's more DB oriented like SQLite both locally and in the browser for example but I understand a documented-oriented approach might make more sense.

In that case, there are a number of recent options. https://www.instantdb.com/ and https://electric-sql.com/ come to mind. I wrote about a number of them here: https://digest.browsertech.com/archive/browsertech-digest-tr...

Thank you!

There is a fairly comprehensive list of frameworks/tools here: https://localfirstweb.dev/

I work on PowerSync and we did a Show HN last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38473743

Also see InstantDB Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41322281

You'd probably enjoy Triplit then--especially if you're using Typescript.

https://triplit.dev

RealmDB is sort of the goto. They were acquired by mongo which could be a negative signal but the team is solid and I haven't seen it result it much degredation.

EDIT: actually... it looks like mongo may have just announced the EOL for server-side component a couple weeks ago... bad timing!

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