Local first architecture with Relay

[steida]

This is more about discussion and experiences. Feel free to close it if offtopic or wrong place.

• This is probably the best study of local first apps: https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first.html
• First usable CRDT lib: https://github.com/automerge/automerge

Does anyone is trying to solve the same problem? Are Relay client extensions ready? Can we leverage Relay API with local schema? Thank you.

[sibelius]

You should look at this code https://github.com/morrys/react-relay-offline by @morrys

I think some of the strategies could be used to enable a local first architecture

client extensions is ready we just need to improve the docs (#1656)

check this setLocal helper #1656 (comment)

you need to tell relay to not garbage collect some client only data

[morrys]

a feature present in relay-relay-offline, in my opinion, very useful that I hope to be able to natively integrate in relay is the addition of expire time and ttl present to the queries in the store.

I also implemented its management in the garbage collector.

This feature in addition to the fetch_policy store_only and store-or-network will give significant added value to the relay store.

relay-tools/relay-hooks#5 in this issue there are the news that will be introduced in relay and many of these implemented in the relay-hooks library to help migrate their projects when they are will be available in the official relay version.

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