SAsamwillis·Sep 29, 2021
I played with rxdb about a year ago, it’s really clever and has some great ideas.
It’s built on the incredible PouchDB (the original offline first db) which is a truly feet of engineering. However I feel it is somewhat neglected (not implying that the original maintainers have any responsibility to the users, this is free Open-source, the fact they gave it away in the first place is brilliant). When I last used it about 6 months ago there had been very little activity in years on the github and I am concerned about their use of automatically marking inactive issues stale after 60 days. There is so little activity the only issues that are open are ones from the last 60 days.
I found a sync conflict[1] (basically a hash collision, the attachments are unintentionally stripped from the document before hashing) and submitted a ticket, unfortun
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ately as there is so little activity the issues was marked as stale and closed automatically. It’s not a bug that many people will come across but is a legitimate issue for anyone using binary attachments.
So, rxdb is really great but I would be cautious about using it when the underlying platform is looking a little neglected. I truly hope someone has the time to take it on as it is an incredible toolkit.
1: https://github.com/pouchdb/pouchdb/issues/8257