#5 – Kyle Mathews: Benefits of using a sync engine, personal local-first apps, ElectricSQL

The guest of this episode is Kyle Matthews, who, in the past, founded Gatsby JS and is currently delving into local-first software. In the conversation, Kyle shares his experiences in building some small-scale local-first apps for his personal use and discusses how the utilization of a data syncing engine liberates significant development time. thews 00:00 Introduction 04:17 The State Transfer Problem 08:08 What are Sync Engines? 13:13 Personal Apps - Pt 1 20:16 Schemas with ElectricSQL 21:26 Personal Apps - Pt 2 24:32 Global Reactive Data 31:53 Learning curve & other challenges 34:40 Technical pioneering 38:22 Developing, deploying, scaling 42:48 Approaching local-first 46:00 Outro Mentioned in podcast: Kyle Mathews: x.com/kylemathews + bricolage.io https://bricolage.io/some-notes-on-local-first-development https://bricolage.io/build-notes-micro-apps-time-distribution http://electric-sql.com Links: Website: https://localfirst.fm X/Twitter: https://x.com/localfirstfm Local-First Conf 2024: https://www.localfirstconf.com Thank you to https://expo.dev/ and https://crabnebula.dev/ for supporting the podcast