from the docs:
The core automerge libraries (both the original classic library and the WASM implementation) offer a compact storage format and a network agnostic sync protocol, but they don't actually do the work of wiring these things up to real storage engines (such as filesystems) or transports (such as websockets). automerge-repo implements all of this plumbing and is how we recommend using automerge going forward.
from the docs:
The core automerge libraries (both the original classic library and the WASM implementation) offer a compact storage format and a network agnostic sync protocol, but they don't actually do the work of wiring these things up to real storage engines (such as filesystems) or transports (such as websockets). automerge-repo implements all of this plumbing and is how we recommend using automerge going forward.