Local-First Conf was a massive success the last 2 years but it feels like the world of software has fundamentally changed by now.
That's why I'm incredibly excited that this year's conference puts a focus on how AI and local-first software go hand in hand.
See you in Berlin!
Local-First Conf is back. See you in Berlin in July!
Watch @schickling.dev introduce LiveStore, a new local-first data layer designed to simplify the creation of high-performance, native-grade web apps by automatically syncing data with reactive SQLite and event sourcing
Full Video: youtu.be/h5Bs0vEka5U
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Heading to ViteConf in Amsterdam where I'll speak about "Building native-grade web apps with synced data".
If you're there, come and say hi!✌️
Hey Luke, thanks for your question. My aim is certainly to make LiveStore as composable as possible.
It's already possible to use whatever event store you want to use on the backend - the client currently uses SQLite to store events.
Hi Matt! Sorry for the delayed response. Not spending a lot of time on Bluesky these days.
The devtools come with a 2 week trial if that works for you?
Unfortunately never used/studied it yet. But curious to hear your findings!
LiveStore Hands-on #1: Work Squared
Friday, Sept 26 @ 5pm CEST / 11am ET (tomorrow)
Watch @schickling and @jessmartin hands-on with a real LiveStore app:
▪︎ Architecture review
▪︎ LiveStore best practices
▪︎ Live debugging
▪︎︎ Source available
luma.com/4s7qev78
Speaker card of Johannes Schickling for ViteConf 2025. It contains his Job Title, "Founder of Prisma", and his talk title "Native-Grade Web Apps with Local-First Data"
⚡ Speaker highlight: Johannes Schickling, co-founder @prisma.io
Web apps need efficiency and real-time sync but traditional models fall short - Sync engines to the rescue!
@schickling.dev, creator of @livestore.dev, will share how Sync Engines can transform web dev and fit right into your Vite app
I saw this tweet about @livestore.dev and it made me realize that @schickling.dev built exactly the library I need to make realtime notebooks with modern agentic plumbing. More 📘 below ⬇️
Hard to explain. I would have not believed it 2 weeks ago.
Give Claude Code a try and iterate as much as possible on helping it do the thing you want. Now scale up and run n in parallel.
So far programmers have been manual factory workers now quickly being replaced by more efficient and better robots.
Like it or not. That’s what’s already happening. Embrace change.
The era of manual software development is coming to a close quickly.
My view on software development has drastically changed. I believe in the future the role of engineers will be to build software factories, not the software itself.
Had a great time interviewing David about how MasterClass uses Effect to build a state-of-the-art voice AI system.
Really shows the power of Effect streams.
What a gem
🧠 Ever heard of event sourcing?
It’s the idea of storing every change as a series of events — instead of just keeping the current state. Think of it like git, but for your app’s data.
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Ditto is probably the most mature sync engine out there used in airlines and other critical environments.
Loved this conversation with Adam who’s the founder of Ditto and previously built Realm.
Lots of great stories and insights in this episode!
Thank you so much, Martin. This means a lot to me coming from you, given LiveStore has been deeply inspired by your work!
I've been hoping for years that someone would build an event sourcing engine for local-first apps, and now @schickling.dev has done it! Hooray! livestore.dev
Really compelling demo by @shykes.bsky.social building a “mini Devin” coding agent in a few lines of code.
Finally made the core idea behind @dagger.io click: a runtime and reusable ecosystem for your builds.
Another key insight: Agents are immutable builds. 🤯
youtu.be/XWO_3My2eVU
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Bonus point for recording a little 5min video demo of your most proud work showcasing a focus on details, performance and accessibility. 🙏
Looking for an experienced frontend developer for a very interesting contract project (related to AI and LiveStore).
Please get in touch via DM with references. (Ideally minimum of 5 years of experience.) Referrals welcome!
This would be a really great question to explore on a @localfirst.fm episode together if you’re interested?
LiveStore is currently trending on GitHub and has already crossed 1000 stars since open sourcing this week! ⭐
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We're kicking off our open source fellowship program by sponsoring @schickling.dev from @livestore.dev
It might seem surprising to sponsor LS as it is a data layer that brings data closer to the UI, traditionally a server's job, and we're a server-first framework.
More: rwsdk.com/blog/rwsdk-x...
Very excited to announce that I'll partner with @redwoodjs.com over the coming months to improve Cloudflare worker support for @livestore.dev
