Syncing for asynchronous storage in v6+

[sgwilym]

What's the problem you want solved?

Porting react-earthstar to use v6.1.0 and the new asynchronous storage has been smooth sailing. There's only one or two things missing before we can consider merging it in.

It seems like there are no ways to directly synchronise an IStorageAsync with a pub over HTTP. In react-earthstar, we seem to be missing equivalents for:

• syncLocalAndHttp, which was used in the useSync hook to manually trigger a sync
  • Which itself is used to trigger a sync when a tab is brought back into focus.
• OnePubOneWorkspaceSyncer, which was used by the LiveSyncer component to start streaming sync with many pubs

Is there a solution you'd like to recommend?

I know that some of the approaches above are temporary solutions (e.g. the manual sync on tab focus is something I know we want to handle in core, see https://github.com/earthstar-project/react-earthstar/pull/59#issuecomment-777760030).

It's not clear to me whether OnePubOneWorkspaceSyncer is intended to have an async equivalent, as I think some of its responsibilities might be moved into the future EarthstarPeer?

Is it better to wait for these more permanent solutions, or should I try making some async equivalents to the two exports above?

[cinnamon-bun]

I don't know how long EarthstarPeer will take. If you think you can make an async version of either of those existing functions without too much trouble, go for it!

[sgwilym]

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