Ask HN: How to have GraphQL in an offline only React Native application
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Are you trying to solve for offline graphql calling or are you trying to find a graph database that can be put into a native app?
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Tick off the common suggestions:
1- No this is not for state management (Redux, Redux-persist)
2- I don't want to use sqlite or any other relational setup
3- I don't want to use serialize then async store
Now that we have those out of the way realm DB is promising but it requires the app to use the db in single thread mode, doesn't support dynamic schema changes and outside of realm-orm I don't see anywhere where I can type it to TS
Apollo client with persistence seems promising but I am concerned that this is a caching solution not a first class offline support.
Actualbudget (a local first app) is doing sqlite3 (table storage) and CDRTs message queue for eventual consistency. I am curious how anytype.io is storing their graph at the edge.
The short pitch is: imagine if you had a structured graph of your personal data (private & synchronized offline), we would be able to build tons of cross silo solutions. My first use case is to identify low frequency NERs so that i can have a personalized RSS reader.