Comment by lucgagan
2 years ago
Can you delve a bit deeper into how WASM works? Specifically, how heavy is the WASM module? Also, is there a specific use-case you've seen where this shines particularly brightly?
2 years ago
Can you delve a bit deeper into how WASM works? Specifically, how heavy is the WASM module? Also, is there a specific use-case you've seen where this shines particularly brightly?
Hey, I work for Electric.
The WASM module is just a standard build of SQLite, about 1.1mb - there are many landing pages 10x that size - and something that we think is easily justifiable for the types of apps that people can build with Electric.
In terms of use cases, there are numerous, broad-ranging possibilities - anything from a replacement for GraphQL or a REST API in your existing stack, all the way up to building large collaborative apps. Our intention is that you can build collaborative tools similar to Linear, and we do actually have a demo of this sort of thing (http://linear-lite.electric-sql.com), but it’s certainly not limited to that.
You can get that size down to 600KB using brotli compression fwiw. Maybe even a bit smaller using Roy's latest tricks that no longer require asyncify'd builds of SQLite.