I'm curious how people build local-first apps. I don't need full CRDT support, but more just syncing with a "parent" db (both pulling new data and pushing locally created records).
I see tinybase which feels maybe a bit more powerful than what I need (?).
I also see livestore which feels scary to build on something that new.
Is there a non-hack way to use sqllite and sync to a postgres db?
Basically my criteria in order of importance would be:
1. stays out of my way (easy to deploy, migrate, use)
2. has leverage with types (a standard linter tells me I'm blowing up the app with the code I just wrote)
3. stable (I would ideally just learn a "goto" tool and use that on all projects going forward)
I build native iOS apps, so the React Native side isn't my stack, but the loop is exactly what I'm missing — my agents can write the code but they can't see what they built, so every UI fix is me screenshotting and pasting it back. A simulator the agent can drive and verify against itself, in parallel, is the piece that would let me hand off a whole feature instead of babysitting each screen. Curious how it handles the flaky bits like permission prompts and deep links.
@jcbuilds saw in their FAQs they're supporting every framework with this one! 🤯
we're on Flutter not RN, and our agents already drive a local iOS sim. the pain is running 3-4 at once on one Mac, it just crawls lol. if these are platform agnostic does a plain Flutter .app just work, and can I pick iPad sizes? most of our UI is tuned for iPad