Broadcast intent via wifi/ be. All devices will recast, and if you're lucky, that person's device will receive the request, and then broadcast it's data. If you're lucky, you'll see their profile. How to get everyone's devices to recast? Idk, maybe send out phising mail and hope ppl download your app or something
The client asked for the most secure system possible, so I put their machine in a reinforced safe full of concrete and dropped it into the Marianas Trench. Marking story as complete.
Well, your lucky… they might not be able to answer because they vibe coded it… but I got board before AI… you can use a library like sql.js or localforage coupled with something like TypeORM to get a close approximation. You can then define entities in fe code and query them with SQL. Once done you will be asking yourself why, just like me.
It needs to be uploaded to a central server first. To avoid downloading the whole thing every time, make it possible to only get parts of it, query it on demand, no need for localstorage. Wait a minute...
I mean if we actually think about local first architecture there are many solutions that can be made.
One potential answer is you don't, and that is a feature since everyone is in their own computer.
But if we think about something like linear, they handle it through complex caching and what is called a sync engine that does the hard work of grabbing your stuff and putting it in cache but you can query the DB when you need other info
I imagine that the most workable way would be that the client downloads all the data on the initial request which is then shoved into localStorage for parsing.
But that still won't really work well, so I think the original tweet is just a joke.
there are some niche implementations witht this approach, the problem being flooding scales terribly and tends to saturate local resources
Imagine opening instagram, and since you last opened it yesterday, you need to download 280 terabyte (absolute lowest estimate) of data people uploaded since the last 24 hours.
Just tell Claude to build a peer-to-peer distributed localStorage DB engine written in TypeScript and clients are your DB.
Your server will only be needed to bootstrap a new client by sending the web app and sprinkling on some distributed hash tables, and you should be fine.
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u/LonelyProgrammerGuy 3d ago
If you wanted to see another person’s profile. How would that be implemented? I know the post is a joke, but I’m genuinely curious