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
SEO is dying. RxDB ranks the same on Google as before, some keywords better than ever, but clicks fall month after month. The searchers moved to AI. I wrote up what I am changing because of it:
Your app breaks the moment the wifi drops. An elevator, a train, a parking garage. Users will not ask for offline support, they will just leave. I wrote up how to build apps that keep working without a connection:
MongoDB shut down Atlas Device Sync 10 months ago. Realm still gets 221k npm downloads per month. I wrote up the three realistic migration paths for stranded teams:
The lead of the Solid project built a replication plugin for RxDB. Your app's database can now sync into a data pod that the user owns. I wrote up why Solid pods plus local-first are the future: