Rethinkdb Peer

[tlvenn]

Hi Michel,

I am day dreaming a little bit maybe but could reqlite become a Rethinkdb Peer like the Datomic Peer ?

More and more people are trying to have a global store in their app and having a rethinkdb peer would go a long way to provide this out of the box.

All the big guys are aiming into that direction, FB with Relay and GraphQL, Netflix with Falcor etc...

Relay will play an important role in Flux architecture and frameworks in the futur but if you have a rethinkdb backend, I believe it could provide a pretty good alternative.

[neumino]

Well the first goal is to reach parity (which isn't that far).

Then building something like Datomic peer is building a whole new software on top of it. I don't really opinions at the moment but:

• I think this is something that should happen in another repository (even if I end up doing it). It should just use reqlite under the hood to power the local database
• reqlite is running on Node, so except if you can run Node on your cellphone, you wouldn't be able to use reqlite on your phone - technically v8 runs on Android though.

[psema4]

node-jet - a "Realtime Message Bus for the Web" - may be worth a look for inspiration. It provides Node & websocket Peers

[tlvenn]

Ya I was throwing it there because it could be a pretty good use case of reqlite which of course would be another project on top of reqlite.

The idea was to keep that on the radar as you develop reqlite so that if someone decided to do something like this, reqlite would be able to provide all the foundation.

Out of curiosity, would it be hard to run reqlite in the browser ?

Thanks again for this amazing project and your continuing contribution to the open source community Michel.