RxDB

⚠️ Your app is slower than it should be and you don't even realize it. Most developers are still building apps that BREAK the moment the internet drops… Meanwhile, users expect: • Instant load times • Real-time updates • Offline reliability Here's the truth 👇 If your app depends entirely on a backend… you've already lost. The shift is happening: local-first apps. Instead of waiting on APIs, your data lives inside the app: → Zero-latency queries → Works offline by default → Syncs in the background seamlessly That's exactly what RxDB enables. It's not just another database, it's a different way of thinking about app performance and user experience. Devs using it are building apps that: • Feel instant • Scale better • Work anywhere (even with bad internet) And yes… this is becoming the new standard. Check it out: https://rxdb.info/

The open-source database RxDB 17 now synchronizes data directly via Google Drive or OneDrive – developers no longer need their own backend.

RxDB 17 just got featured on heise online 🎉 Big thanks to the heise online team! Check it out 👇 https://lnkd.in/dhi25mRm

Released the next major RxDB Version 17.0.0. New features: - WebMCP Plugin - Expo Filesystem Based storage (faster than SQLite) - Google-Drive and Microsoft-OneDrive sync plugins https://lnkd.in/dVSXp8xV

We've been building ClarityBoss for a few months now, and made an early bet on a technology neither Matt Miner nor myself had used before. So far, it's been a pretty good bet! RxDB has let us build a browser-based application that has the ability to work offline, search and load data quickly since it can all happen client side, and keep changes instantly synced between multiple devices. It also sets us up nicely in the future for some privacy-focused features we are exploring. I've wrote up two semi-technical posts on some of the things we've figured out along the way- links to Part 1 (frontend concerns) and Part 2 (our backend Golang sync implementation) in the comments.

In the future, users won't browse the app stores to find the "best app" for their use case. Instead, their agent will fork the best-fitting project from GitHub and adapt it to their needs. With the latest RxDB release, we are taking a step into this direction: Users can now sync directly with their own Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive account. No Servers. No Backend. Just user-owned data.

Just published expo-opfs. If you're building an Expo app and want to use a web library that needs the Origin Private File System (OPFS), this polyfill based on expo-filesystem makes it work out of the box. https://lnkd.in/g5Ggi-j8

The end of AI DOM scraping is here. Introducing the RxDB WebMCP Plugin! For years, automation and AI interactions in the browser have relied on a "pixels-as-APIs" approach: guessing CSS class names, parsing accessibility trees, and breaking whenever a layout changes. WebMCP (Web Model Context Protocol), currently incubated by the W3C Web Machine Learning community group, changes everything. It transforms the browser from a visual document viewer into a semantic capability surface, providing a formalized machine interface alongside the human interface. But WebMCP is uniquely powerful when paired with Local-First databases like RxDB: - Unlimited Options: Instead of hardcoding tools for every possible action, exposing a local database gives AI Agents unlimited generic query and mutation options mathematically bound only by your schema. - Zero Latency & Offline: Agents query data instantly from the local database on the user's device, even without an internet connection. - Privacy First: Sensitive user data stays on the device while still being queryable by an on-device AI model. - LLM-Friendly NoSQL: Writing JSON-based NoSQL queries is much easier for LLMs than orchestrating complex SQL JOINs. - Native JSONSchema: RxDB schemas are already written in JSONSchema, meaning zero translation overhead for WebMCP! With the new RxDB-WebMCP plugin, you can expose your RxDB collections to AI Agents with a single function call. Check out the documentation to learn how you can make your Local-First applications natively accessible to AI today: https://lnkd.in/diF9_T6t #RxDB #LocalFirst #WebMCP #AI #WebDevelopment #JavaScript #Database #LLM #OpenSource