Local First Web Development: A Better Paradigm for Modern Applications
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Summary
The article critiques the current state of web development, highlighting issues like intrusive ads, AI-generated search summaries, and slow performance. It proposes 'local first' as a better paradigm for web design, where UI and data are co-located to improve responsiveness and user experience. The author argues this approach addresses fundamental problems in modern web applications by prioritizing local processing over server dependencies.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledThere is a common refrain on the internet that things have gotten worse and are continuing to get worse.
There is a proliferation of horrible jumpy loading ads on every website, every search engine throws a crappy AI summary in front of your search result, every site/webapp seems to have gotten slower and slower.
I cannot provide a solution for all of that, but I can point to a better paradigm for web site and web app design.
That paradigm is local first.
Local first is a design principle for web apps where the UI and data are co-located and changes to the data are
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