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And yet as a user I sometimes find local-first applications harder to reason about. For some apps I know to force-quit and relaunch the mobile app after reconne

And yet as a user I sometimes find local-first applications harder to reason about. For some apps I know to force-quit and relaunch the mobile app after reconnecting to the network before opening the website, for example. Distributed systems are just hard I guess, especially involving user systems.

yen223 2y ago
Local-first applications are much harder to reason about than server-driven apps or local-only apps, because there's now two sources of truth - the app and the server. Reconciling the two is much trickier than it looks.