Innovations in JavaScript Development

Fashion dictates that apps should be mere thin clients, displaying data that’s stored somewhere in the cloud. But there is another way! There’s a movement growing around an alternative architecture – “local-first” apps – designed instead with data primarily stored on the device, and facilitating high performance user-experiences without sacrificing collaboration and synchronization. In this magazine, we’ll discuss some of the pros and cons of cloud-first vs local-first apps, and take a look at a JavaScript state management library called TinyBase that’s built with these principles in mind.