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That sounds interesting. Have you compared your service to pouchdb and gun? Is it possible to use icepeak in offline mode and automatically sync when getting online again?

[1] https://pouchdb.com/

[2] https://gun.js.org/

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PouchDB looks like the client side library.

Do you still need CouchDB on the backend?

I see from the mailing list it is still a very active project, which surprised me.

PouchDB is CouchDB-Protocol implemented in javascript so you can run it wherever there is javascript, not just as a client. If you want to have a backend, you can use any DB that supports that protocol (there are several), which includes using a PouchDB instance run by node.js.

Is PouchDB + CouchDB considered an alternative to Firebase?

That depends on your use case since Firebase is more than a database. Since CouchDB is from 2005 and Firebase is from 2011, it is in comparison a very mature product and protocol worth trying.

If you want to have PouchDB without being tied to the CouchDB-backend, check out RxDB. It supports replication via GraphQL.

https://github.com/pubkey/rxdb

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