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0 pointsEscapado18d ago0 comments

Correct but the feedback is usually more immediate. Save a change to your issue and it fails - You will get an error toast and probably stay on the form.

In the local first world you might have navigated away already and created 3 more issues of which 2 more failed because of schema drift or other conflicts. And you might have edited one that was deleted. And now you need to figure out what exactly to tell the user - or what not to tell them.

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artman18d ago· 1 in thread

In reality conflicts almost never happen.

EscapadoOP18d ago

I agree. I just argue that you would still want your app to handle those with as little data loss as possible and in a way that's understandable to the user.

jack_pp18d ago

Well the sync engine can figure out if there's an issue fast, say <500ms, if you build it that way. Then you can just make a toast telling the user there are issues and anything they do will be saved locally only for the time being.

Warn the user that if they leave the website their changes won't be saved remotely.

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