Offline-First React Native: Lessons from an App with 100K Users
How to build offline-first React Native apps that never lose data: local-first storage, an outbox for writes, sync, conflicts and testing bad networks.
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How to build offline-first React Native apps that never lose data: local-first storage, an outbox for writes, sync, conflicts and testing bad networks.
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