Best Practices

Ensure you actually want a local-first application

Bad fit for:

• Random data access. Like Youtube, or Twitter.
• Apps that interact with physical resources like money, or…a railwway crossing gate.
• Domains that need to preserve invariants
• Content websites. Try using a Service Worker cache instead.
• Low session duration, many visitors.

Fractional indexes

Local-only events

Data modelling

Use junction tables and foreign keys instead of nested JSON objects.