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I feel your pain. I'm a .net guy who transitioned to typescript 5 years ago.

If I may, could I suggest Firebase as something to consider? It has automatic offline sync over indexdb, and you can subscribe your app to data changes to sync all devices etc.

It takes about a day to get your head around how it works, and given your use case you probably just need the Hosting, Firestore + Auth modules.

I use it a lot now in my side projects and it has been life changing in terms of taking away all of the boilerplate code and letting my just write app code.




The main thing that's been scaring me away from Firebase is the vendor-lockin/pricing. My target audience are students who are very price sensitive, and I hear firebase is pricy as heck. I will likely launch this as a freemium service. Sync is kinda table stakes, so it'll need to exist in some capacity for free users.




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