Video presentation

"Real World Local First with Svelte" by Scott Tolinski

Zero is a new library for Local-first development that automatically replicates a subset of your Postgres database in your browser.

Zero is an excellent fit for Svelte. If I had to say in one line why Svelte feels magical, it's that there is no trade-off between developer experience and user experience - it makes it easier to write better software. Using Svelte, some problems just disappear entirely, and we are given tools to make other problems much easier to tackle. Zero extends this magic. Delays waiting for page loaders and form submissions disappear, and pages update instantly in response to changes made by other users. Zero is currently in Alpha but already in a state where it's quicker to build a feature with Zero than with regular Svelte loaders and actions.

In this talk I'll go over how to set up Zero, what it can do for you, how it compares to alternatives, why it's such a good fit for Svelte, and why I think that this is the first usable product in a new category that will change the way we write a lot of software.

A deep dive into local-first architecture, exploring data management challenges in distributed systems and the benefits of client-centric solutions like CRDTs.

There are dozens of ways to deploy an application. Options, like hosting on Vercel, are super hands off. You could take things into your own hands and manage your entire AWS infrastructure yourself. But what if you wanted a nice option in the middle?

Ease of deployment, while having complete control over your infrastructure?

I'll run through how SST fits in the above niche, and how we can use it to quickly publish a Sveltekit app that talks to DynamoDB tables.

I'll then touch on handling real-time data using Server-sent events, which are an underrated alternative to Websockets.