ReactFoo Mumbai

The talk addresses the what, why, how and huh? of building offline first applications in the react ecosystem.
What are offline first applications and why in certain use-cases having them is or can be beneficial.
How to go about building your offline first client app in the react/react-native ecosystem with approach appropriate to your use case. What are the tools/libraries available in your arsenal and their pros, cons and their applicability to different architecture choices.

Outline

• What?
  • What are offline first applications
  • Examples
• Why?
  • Use cases
• How?
  • Identifying what data to store on the client and its validity
  • Storage medium to use on the client (web and phone)
  • Exploring various tools/features like Realm, GunDB, IndexedDB, Service Workers for the above purpose
  • Different possible approaches on how and when to pull and push data to the server.
  • Explore various tools/features/transport protocols like Custom, Service Workers, Realm, Relay, REST, gRPC etc which can be used for above
• Huh?
  • Problems with Offline first apps
• Brief description of architecture used by OpenCHS and Gunak

Speaker bio

I have worked on 2 offline first react-native open source products (OpenCHS and Gunak), 1 of them for the Health Ministry.
I also have been working in the React ecosystem for the past 3 years. Co-Founder at Samanvay Foundation.

Links

• My Github - https://github.com/mihirk
• Gunak - https://github.com/NHSRC/facilities-assessment-android-client
• OpenCHS - https://github.com/openchs/openchs-client
• Previous Talk with HasGeek - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9JuCaxQkCM