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Deciding how to approach offline support can be challenging, especially once you move beyond the basics. So far, I focused on persisting data that was already fetched as a result of user actions. This
Software engineering is changing faster than most of us can comfortably adapt to. The capabilities of LLM models change almost monthly. New tools appear every week. Advice that felt solid three months
This is the eighth post in my series about offline support in web applications and the fifth focused on the foreground queue. In the previous article, we covered error handling and retry strategies. A
This is the seventh post in the series about offline support in web applications and the fourth one focused specifically on the foreground queue. In the previous article, we exposed queue state, how UI components subscribe to it, and how to wire ever...
This is the sixth post in the series about offline support in web applications and the third one focused specifically on the foreground queue. In the previous article, we introduced the concept of a f
This is the fifth post in my series about offline support in web applications and the second one focused specifically on the foreground queue. In the previous article, I introduced a foreground queue for pending offline mutations and outlined its bas...
Deciding how to handle user actions when the network disappears is one of the trickiest parts of offline support. Reads are usually manageable once you have persistence in place. Writes are where things get interesting. This is the fourth post in my ...
When building web applications, it’s easy to think of the client state as disposable. Refresh the page, refetch the data, and move on. That mental model works well — right up until you start caring about offline behaviour. This is the third post in a...
Offline support in web applications often gets discussed as an all-or-nothing feature. Either the app is “offline-capable” or it isn’t. In practice, the app must check quite a few boxes to be able to function without access to a network. Before think...
