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Johannes Schickling @schickling.dev · 1d

Heading to ViteConf in Amsterdam where I'll speak about "Building native-grade web apps with synced data".

If you're there, come and say hi!✌️

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Johannes Schickling @schickling.dev · 6d

Hey Luke, thanks for your question. My aim is certainly to make LiveStore as composable as possible.

It's already possible to use whatever event store you want to use on the backend - the client currently uses SQLite to store events.

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Johannes Schickling @schickling.dev · 13d

Hi Matt! Sorry for the delayed response. Not spending a lot of time on Bluesky these days.

The devtools come with a 2 week trial if that works for you?

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Johannes Schickling @schickling.dev · 13d

Unfortunately never used/studied it yet. But curious to hear your findings!

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LiveStore @livestore.dev · 13d

LiveStore Hands-on #1: Work Squared

Friday, Sept 26 @ 5pm CEST / 11am ET (tomorrow)

Watch @schickling and @jessmartin hands-on with a real LiveStore app:
▪︎ Architecture review
▪︎ LiveStore best practices
▪︎ Live debugging
▪︎︎ Source available

luma.com/4s7qev78

LiveStore Hands-on #1: Work Squared · Luma

Real-time code review of Work Squared built on LiveStore. Framework creator Johannes pairs with app author Jess to debug, refactor, and share best practices.

luma.com

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ViteConf @viteconf.org · Jul 25

⚡ Speaker highlight: Johannes Schickling, co-founder @prisma.io

Web apps need efficiency and real-time sync but traditional models fall short - Sync engines to the rescue!

@schickling.dev, creator of @livestore.dev, will share how Sync Engines can transform web dev and fit right into your Vite app

Speaker card of Johannes Schickling for ViteConf 2025. It contains his Job Title, "Founder of Prisma", and his talk title "Native-Grade Web Apps with Local-First Data"

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Kyle Kelley @kylekelley.bsky.social · Jul 25

I saw this tweet about @livestore.dev and it made me realize that @schickling.dev built exactly the library I need to make realtime notebooks with modern agentic plumbing. More 📘 below ⬇️

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Johannes Schickling @schickling.dev · Jul 2

Hard to explain. I would have not believed it 2 weeks ago.

Give Claude Code a try and iterate as much as possible on helping it do the thing you want. Now scale up and run n in parallel.

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Johannes Schickling @schickling.dev · Jul 2

So far programmers have been manual factory workers now quickly being replaced by more efficient and better robots.

Like it or not. That’s what’s already happening. Embrace change.

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Johannes Schickling @schickling.dev · Jul 2

The era of manual software development is coming to a close quickly.

My view on software development has drastically changed. I believe in the future the role of engineers will be to build software factories, not the software itself.

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Johannes Schickling @schickling.dev · Jun 24

Had a great time interviewing David about how MasterClass uses Effect to build a state-of-the-art voice AI system.

Really shows the power of Effect streams.

Effect | TypeScript at Scale @effect-ts.bsky.social · Jun 24

In this Cause & Effect episode, Johannes Schickling talks with David Golightly about how MasterClass built Cortex with Effect.

Cortex is the voice AI orchestration layer powering personalized conversations with celebrity instructors like Gordon Ramsay and Mark Cuban.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2bU...

Scaling Voice AI at MasterClass with Effect & TypeScript | David Golightly | Cause & Effect #3

YouTube video by Effect | TypeScript at Scale

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Johannes Schickling @schickling.dev · Jun 21

What a gem

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Beto @codewithbeto.dev · Jun 19

🧠 Ever heard of event sourcing?

It’s the idea of storing every change as a series of events — instead of just keeping the current state. Think of it like git, but for your app’s data.

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Johannes Schickling @schickling.dev · Jun 18

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Johannes Schickling @schickling.dev · Jun 17

Ditto is probably the most mature sync engine out there used in airlines and other critical environments.

Loved this conversation with Adam who’s the founder of Ditto and previously built Realm.

Lots of great stories and insights in this episode!

localfirst.fm @localfirst.fm · Jun 17

Episode #26 is out.

Adam Fish on building sync engines at scale with Ditto and Realm.

Full episode links and show notes in the comments.

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Johannes Schickling @schickling.dev · Jun 8

Thank you so much, Martin. This means a lot to me coming from you, given LiveStore has been deeply inspired by your work!

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Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com · Jun 8

I've been hoping for years that someone would build an event sourcing engine for local-first apps, and now @schickling.dev has done it! Hooray! livestore.dev

LiveStore: Local-first data layer for high-performance appsArrowArrowArrowArrowLiveStore

LiveStore is a state management framework based on SQLite and event-sourcing. It’s designed for demanding applications and based on years of research.

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Johannes Schickling @schickling.dev · Jun 6

Really compelling demo by @shykes.bsky.social building a “mini Devin” coding agent in a few lines of code.

Finally made the core idea behind @dagger.io click: a runtime and reusable ecosystem for your builds.

Another key insight: Agents are immutable builds. 🤯

youtu.be/XWO_3My2eVU

Containerize your agents!

YouTube video by Dagger

youtu.be

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Johannes Schickling @schickling.dev · Jun 1

🙌

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Johannes Schickling @schickling.dev · May 31

Bonus point for recording a little 5min video demo of your most proud work showcasing a focus on details, performance and accessibility. 🙏

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Johannes Schickling @schickling.dev · May 31

Looking for an experienced frontend developer for a very interesting contract project (related to AI and LiveStore).

Please get in touch via DM with references. (Ideally minimum of 5 years of experience.) Referrals welcome!

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Johannes Schickling @schickling.dev · May 30

This would be a really great question to explore on a @localfirst.fm episode together if you’re interested?

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LiveStore @livestore.dev · May 29

LiveStore is currently trending on GitHub and has already crossed 1000 stars since open sourcing this week! ⭐

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Johannes Schickling @schickling.dev · May 29

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RedwoodSDK @redwoodjs.com · May 29

We're kicking off our open source fellowship program by sponsoring @schickling.dev from @livestore.dev

It might seem surprising to sponsor LS as it is a data layer that brings data closer to the UI, traditionally a server's job, and we're a server-first framework.

More: rwsdk.com/blog/rwsdk-x...

Redwood is sponsoring Johannes from LiveStore | RedwoodSDK

Redwood is sponsoring LiveStore to build an adapter for Cloudflare

rwsdk.com

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