evaluate WatermelonDB

[yzorg]

This project will have multiple implementations of the UI layer. I recently heard a podcast about
WatermellonDB and it sounds like the best fit available.

I think the real-time nature of file system (when a developer is working, and tools like compilers and bundlers are running) means that I want the UI to render from a local data cache, and changes to the local data need to be reflected (React/Vue re-render). I want the UI to be fast, which means the *data sync* will be happening *after* the cached directory list is shown. So it would be best if the app had a local, in-browser data store that was also reactive. WatermelonDB seems to fit the bill, when no others do.

When reviewing other local data libraries I kept thinking: Why can't someone just solve synchronization? But if WMDB gives me reactivity, then I think I think synchronization is solvable.

Others had promise, like GunDB, but that project seemed to spend a lot of time/effort on signing data, and other "distributed trust" scenarios that seemed way out from what I'm looking for. (Keep in mind, I'm trying to keep "first load" experience snappy, i.e. a Javascript code budget that Addy Osmani would be proud of.)