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463 points 8organicbits | 2 comments | | HN request time: 0.421s | source
1. swyx ◴[] No.44307711[source]
> All Scrappy apps are multiplayer, like a Google Doc is. You can even edit them while they are being used by someone else!

ok where is the scrappy backend? what data do you see? where do i make an account? i wish that this was more transparent/discussed since obviously this software is not entirely local?

> LLMs are getting better and better, and while they are far from able to make a full-fledged app without a lot of help from a software engineer, they can make small apps pretty reliably.

mildly disagree. llm generated apps tend to look better + i dont have to learn or stick to your preset primitives. even nontechnical people run into this pretty quickly

otherwise, nice labor of love. good going OP.

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2. jrcplus ◴[] No.44309732[source]
Scrappy co-creator here. It was a surprise to us that this blew up on HN. We've hurriedly added an FAQ to the write-up.

In regards to this question about the "Scrappy backend": Scrappy is local-first, so data is stored locally in your browser, and optionally replicated to a lightweight sync server, to help coordinate syncing between peers. In other words, Scrappy is almost entirely front-end. The only third-party dependencies are Yjs <https://yjs.dev/> and CodeMirror <https://codemirror.net/>. We don’t use any other libraries or frameworks like React. There’s no analytics.

And there's no traditional backend. The only cloud dependency is the sync server, which is a plain vanilla y-websocket-server <https://github.com/yjs/y-websocket-server/>.