What if we had Local-First Software?

Re:What if we had Local-First Software? by avrionov on Thursday October 15, 2020 @05:47PM (#24794486)

The app looks great. What technologies did you use to develop it?

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Re:What if we had Local-First Software? by ignoramous on Thursday October 15, 2020 @08:56PM (#24796227)

The app's UI is consistent across all platforms. Such delightful colours and design. What an impressive execution!

GP, I'm curious about the frontend stack as well.

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Re:What if we had Local-First Software? by jlongster on Friday October 16, 2020 @09:33AM (#24800651)

@avrionov @ignoramous Thank you!

The frontend for desktop/browser React, and Electron is used to create standalone apps. I don't love Electron, and if you don't want it a browser version is available too: https://app.actualbudget.com/

The mobile app uses React Native and has a custom UI just for mobile, but it shares styles and a few small components with web. I don't believe that you can build one UI that works well on both desktop and mobile.

All platforms share the backend code which runs in a separate process/thread. On mobile, I use https://github.com/JaneaSystems/nodejs-mobile to run the JS backend locally.

That's mostly it. No UI frameworks are used. I love UI/UX design so I built it from the ground up to be as usable and performant as possible.

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