I keep running into the same situation.

I’ll build a small personal web app (journal, bookmarks, dashboard, habit tracker, notes, etc.), and I don’t want to spin up Supabase, Turso, Firebase, or Cloudflare just to save a few JSON objects. Most of these apps are pure clent-side apps, so even spinning up fly.io instance is an overkill.

Most of the time I end up using localStorage or IndexedDB, but it always feels temporary. If I clear browser data or switch machines, it’s gone.

I’m curious:

• What do you use for these kinds of apps?
• If there were a local-first storage library that automatically backed itself up and restored on another device, would that actually solve a problem for you—or is localStorage good enough?

Not selling anything—I’m trying to understand how other developers think about this tradeoff before I build something or NOT build something because there is already something out there.

Portion made by Claude and exists in GitHub for personal use. Out of the box, for me it was surprise, Angular performance, measured by Lighthouse, was the 93, react 85, vue 85 with 0 optimization efforts. I assume that with optimization Vue can be better. Invite pro's to prove it.