Effect and Evolu: Old New Ways to Write Not Just Web Apps
summary
Introduces Effect, a TypeScript library aiming to be a standard application library for the JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystem, explaining its origins and the problems it addresses. Then describes Evolu, a local-first platform built with Effect focused on privacy, ease of use, and avoiding vendor lock-in, discussing the local-first concept, its benefits, and its limitations.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Effect intro
- 1:03What is Effect
- 4:03Type errors in Effect
- 7:30Concurrency patterns
- 10:01Effect ecosystem
- 11:53Effect in TypeScript
- 13:18Local First apps
- 16:27Local First benefits
- 18:38Evolu and SQL in browser
- 20:44Scaling Evolu challenges
- 22:33Range-based sync in Evolu
- 27:12Skip lists for Evolu
- 30:03SQL as programming language
- 31:50Binary protocol in Evolu
- 34:41Future of Effect & Evolu
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