Hacker News Reader

This pretty much matches the way I think it should be done ideally. I'm still pretty new to local-first though. Are there data formats or types of apps that don't lend themselves well to file-based sync?

For your app, how do notifications of changes get propagated? Does it depend on the backend (Google Drive, etc) supporting that, or does it just do polling or something?

View on HN

For the desktop version just watching the directory for changes is enough to achieve that. Nestful is not aware the files are syncing, it just reads files as they are.

Ah ok so Nestful doesn't integrate with Dropbox/Drive directly, but if the user uses something like them for sync, the app picks up the changes?

Yes, exactly right. We offer our own paid sync if users would like to save the hassle

Reply on news.ycombinator.com