Johannes Schickling

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"

⚡ 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

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 ⬇️

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.

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.

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.

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.

What a gem

🧠 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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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!

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

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.

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

YouTube video by Dagger Containerize your agents!

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

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

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!

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

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

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Redwood is sponsoring Johannes from LiveStore | RedwoodSDK Redwood is sponsoring LiveStore to build an adapter for Cloudflare

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...

Very excited to announce that I'll partner with @redwoodjs.com over the coming months to improve Cloudflare worker support for @livestore.dev

Someone needs to interview me about this! 👀

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After 4 years of work, I'm incredibly excited to introduce LiveStore, the next-gen data layer I'm building for Overtone.

It's based on reactive SQLite and has a built-in sync engine. Give it a try - would love your feedback!

@tantaman.com

Very excited for next week!

Move fast and sync things

It's a good name for what it does. Just not as "poetic" and whimsical as Dreamweaver :)

Dreamweaver was such a cool product name. Would totally work today aswell for an AI builder.

When I founded Prisma, my goal was to make databases easy.

Now building @livestore.dev, my goal is to make app data simple.

Easy is great, particularly when getting started. But as an app gets complex, simplicity is more important. (Even more true with AI.)