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		gwbas1c on Oct 25, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rxdb: A reactive database where you can subscribe ... > Having client state just be a replica of server state solves so many problems I don't understand why the concept never caught on. As soon as your server state is larger than whatever your client can handle, the whole metaphor breaks down.

ralusek on Oct 25, 2019 [–]

I'm assuming that the client state would be a lazy representation of the back end state, that only pulls data as needed. The result being that local and server state must both be treated only as asynchronously accessible.

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