Re:Reverse engineering of Linear's sync engine
by bitpush on Saturday May 31, 2025 @01:54AM
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What's the closest opensource library that implements this sync (or similar) scheme? ElectricSQL? ZeroSync? Firebase? Something else?
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Re:Reverse engineering of Linear's sync engine
by jaccola on Saturday May 31, 2025 @05:06AM
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Firebase (Firestore is the DB) is the best I've ever used but not open source. MongoDB has Realm which achieves similar, is open source and is OK.
Re:Reverse engineering of Linear's sync engine
by ochiba on Saturday May 31, 2025 @06:41AM
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Realm's sync functionality (Atlas Device Sync) has been deprecated by MongoDB: https://www.mongodb.com/docs/atlas/app-services/sync/device-...
Re:Reverse engineering of Linear's sync engine
by rapnie on Saturday May 31, 2025 @06:36AM
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There is a proliferation of sync tools and little standardization. Here some in local-first space [0]. Martin Kleppmann in his talk last year spoke [1] the need for a generic sync protocol, which was very interesting.
Re:Reverse engineering of Linear's sync engine
by drunkan on Saturday May 31, 2025 @07:50AM
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Someone maintains a list here
https://www.localfirst.fm/landscape
LiveStore shows recreating linear as one of their examples though I haven’t tried it. It was on the front page recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44105412