Every App secretly wants to be Local-First

• Conference Talk by Anselm Eikhoff about Jazz.tools
• Given at the Local-First Conference (2024)

Notes

• ”LoFi is a special case about distributed state”
• Collaborative Values (CoValues)
  • Me: Noooooo so many namespace conflicts!
• Gives a real world example
  • But doesn’t look LoFi!
    • Needs external APIs, cron-like tasks mean wall clock, etc
    • Some server-side scheduling put a server dependency, but offline is retained
      • Schedules sync through the central server
• Can prototype directly in the browser
• App demo
  • Posted a link that let the audience post to the server