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Re:Rxdb: A reactive database where you can subscribe to the ... by gwbas1c on Friday October 25, 2019 @09:40AM (#21354784)
> Having client state just be a replica of server state solves so many problems I don't understand why the concept never caught on.

As soon as your server state is larger than whatever your client can handle, the whole metaphor breaks down.

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Re:Rxdb: A reactive database where you can subscribe to the ... by ralusek on Friday October 25, 2019 @01:56PM (#21357503)
I'm assuming that the client state would be a lazy representation of the back end state, that only pulls data as needed. The result being that local and server state must both be treated only as asynchronously accessible.
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