I’m familiar with this project - the creator is a friend. I’ll try to get him on here to answer questions.
He’s a seasoned database architect. With SQLsync he’s made a way for frontend developers to query and update a remote database as if it was completely located right in the browser. Because it basically is. The power of WASM makes it possible to ship a whole SQLite database to the browser. The magic is in how it syncs from multiple clients with a clever but simple reactive algorithm.
It’s a radical attack on the whole problem. Much of our work as developers is about syncing data. When you start looking at React and REST APIs as a kind of sync procedure, this approach can open a lot of new possibilities. You don’t have to write a weird bespoke database of trees of objects fetched and cached from the API any more. You can just update and query it locally, with all the power of a relational database.
He’s a seasoned database architect. With SQLsync he’s made a way for frontend developers to query and update a remote database as if it was completely located right in the browser. Because it basically is. The power of WASM makes it possible to ship a whole SQLite database to the browser. The magic is in how it syncs from multiple clients with a clever but simple reactive algorithm.
It’s a radical attack on the whole problem. Much of our work as developers is about syncing data. When you start looking at React and REST APIs as a kind of sync procedure, this approach can open a lot of new possibilities. You don’t have to write a weird bespoke database of trees of objects fetched and cached from the API any more. You can just update and query it locally, with all the power of a relational database.