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Tools for building secure, distributed applications in the browser. - local-first-web

Local-first software: Collaboration without sacrificing control 💿 Traditional installed applications give you control over your stuff, but limit you to a single device, so it's clumsy to work with others. And it's your job to make sure the data on your fragile hardware is backed up somewhere. 🌨 Cloud applications let you collaborate in real time and from different devices. But you can't use them at all when you're offline. And you no longer have control over your own stuff — the software provider does. You lose access to it if they go out of business. Or if they decide to discontinue the ser

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