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by privatemonkey 1724 days ago
I'm happy to see news about RxDB. I really want them to do great but have the same concern with the inactivity of underlying tech. Both PouchDb and CouchDb have existed for ages and are such a great fit for modern web apps. They just lack the adoption and connection to newer frameworks.

An activily maintained SvelteKit/RxDB starterkit with built in auth might might get RxDB some new fans.

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RxDB maintainer here.

I am aware of that problem. Pouchdb got some good love in the last weeks where some people made good PRs with fixes for the indexeddb adapter. But still it is mostly unmaintained and issues are just closed by the state bot instead of being fixed.

So in the last major RxDB release [1] I abstracted the underlaying pouchdb in a way that it can be swapped out for a different storage engine. This means you could in theory use RxDB directly on SQLite or indexeddb. In practice of course someone has to first create a working implementation of the RxStorage interface.

[1] https://github.com/pubkey/rxdb/blob/master/orga/releases/10....