Triplit
Data
syncing database
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How HN took it
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4 positive, 22 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 5 critical, out of 33 comments about the project. Thread score +0.06.
Idea: 1 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Good developer experience and TypeScript support
From 2 comments
I've been using Triplit on my React native app for a while and it works great. Highly recommend. It's the only local-first db that hits these points for me: - Good sane query…
tanishqkanc on HNWe’ve been using triplit to store user settings that can be managed by admins, it’s important users always feel like the app runs locally and they often don’t have good internet…
armincerf on HN
Responsive support team
From 1 comment
We’ve been using triplit to store user settings that can be managed by admins, it’s important users always feel like the app runs locally and they often don’t have good internet…
armincerf on HN
Objections
AGPL license concerns for applications using the client libraries
From 2 comments
So you have to AGPL your product because of the database that it uses lol, hard pass.
victor9000 on HNYour link confirms victor9000's point and contradicts your first sentence. The frontend libraries (the client-side database, the React and Svelte bindings, etc.) are AGPL, so…
mkl on HN
Custom query language lacks aggregations such as COUNT
From 1 comment
Hi Triplit's team, Congrats on the launch and thanks for the awesome product! I've been using Triplit in one of my projects [1], and it do work as expected. In my self-promotion…
thanhnguyen2187 on HN
No self-hosted high-availability deployment yet
From 1 comment
We’ve been using triplit to store user settings that can be managed by admins, it’s important users always feel like the app runs locally and they often don’t have good internet…
armincerf on HN
Requests
Flutter or native mobile bindings
From 1 comment
I believe I saw your video presentations on YouTube [0] from the Local First Discord server [1], so nice to see your Show HN here. I am not using TypeScript so I might not be…
satvikpendem on HN
Rust bindings for Tauri
From 1 comment
would be great to have Rust bindings so it could work with Tauri. With tauri growth and the upcoming mobile devices support coupled with SQLite recent hype, this could bridge the…
munzman on HN
Vue support
From 1 comment
Yep! We've just prioritized based on what's been requested in our Discord and surprisingly Svelte has been requested a lot more than Vue so we did that first but Vue is on the way.
matlin on HN
Postgres integration
From 1 comment
So it’s not possible to use this with an existing postgresql database?
sagarjs on HN
Questions
How schema evolution works across client versions
From 1 comment
Related question: when you're using databases with great offline sync protocols like this, how do you do schema evolution of your DB, especially in the face of different client…
lars512 on HN
How access controls are defined
From 1 comment
Looks very useful. I didn't dive deep, but don't understand yet where you define access controls? I mean, How you say that a given Users can only Access their own data.
stevage on HN
Sync latency and benchmarks
From 2 comments
What is Triplet’s syncing latency?
mrtesthah on HNWow, nice work. I will definitely try it out for my apps and backend. Do you have any benchmarks? Not sure about the AGPL licence
8mobile on HN
Alternatives named
Evolu
From 1 comment
Hi Triplit's team, Congrats on the launch and thanks for the awesome product! I've been using Triplit in one of my projects [1], and it do work as expected. In my self-promotion…
thanhnguyen2187 on HN
ElectricSQL
From 1 comment
I believe I saw your video presentations on YouTube [0] from the Local First Discord server [1], so nice to see your Show HN here. I am not using TypeScript so I might not be…
satvikpendem on HN
PowerSync
From 1 comment
I believe I saw your video presentations on YouTube [0] from the Local First Discord server [1], so nice to see your Show HN here. I am not using TypeScript so I might not be…
satvikpendem on HN
RxDB
From 1 comment
Looks like it could be a more batteries-included/opinionated alternative to RxDB (https://rxdb.info). The relational queries might help some people who tend to think in SQL as…
troyjfarrell on HN
Meteor
From 1 comment
That's really interesting & cool - I'm gonna look into this for sure! I'd like to mention the Meteor.js framework (https://www.meteor.com/) too, which is in a bit of a…
danman114 on HN