Summary

Today, we've got a big round of updates to share. We've been getting some great early feedback from Threads users and have learned a lot building Buckets and our own internal systems. Our recent work on go-threads has improved a lot of the usability, added some missing features, and moved toward better naming conventions. Meanwhile, we've pushed js-threads up to an eleven. We're excited to share all the details below.

Background Links 📘

• A protocol & event-sourced database for decentralized user-siloed data
• Previous progress summary
• Getting Started with Threads – an EthDenver primer
• Project planning

Next Steps 🍿

• Improve the default CRDT codec.
• Implement the default ACL.
• Provide examples for integration with identity solutions.

Sprint Debrief

Focus Areas 📐

• Release js-threads (stay tuned for official release post) !!!
• Improved configuration of keys and IDs.
• Re-enabled pubsub for direct sharing of online peers.
• Renaming systems based on early user-feedback.
• Clean-up several APIs for improved usability.

Discussion & Planning Changes 🤔

• We're focused on integrating a default JSON Document CRDT that can work in both Go and JS!
• Threads are very app-centric to start, but enabling the creation of user-silo'd datasets is just a couple steps away. The major step being, Thread support for user-owned identity tools. We'll be working to show this in action soon.

Closed 💥

go-threads

• Re-enabled PubSub for update publishing & subscription: https://github.com/textileio/go-threads/pull/275
• Thread Delete: https://github.com/textileio/go-threads/pull/274
• DBs only run in JSON mode: https://github.com/textileio/go-threads/pull/277
• Migrate Foldersync into go-threads: https://github.com/textileio/go-threads/pull/268
• Consolidate gRPC servers: https://github.com/textileio/go-threads/issues/267
• Autostart the store on creation: https://github.com/textileio/go-threads/issues/230
• ThreadID used for DBs: https://github.com/textileio/go-threads/issues/264
• Experimental Android client: https://github.com/textileio/go-threads/pull/256
• Renamed store → db: https://github.com/textileio/go-threads/pull/258
• Collections & Instances (replaces models/entities): https://github.com/textileio/go-threads/pull/261
• Fix our windows build: https://github.com/textileio/go-threads/pull/269

js-threads

• JS implementation of ThreadsDB: https://github.com/textileio/js-threads/pull/31
• Local-first database in JS: https://github.com/textileio/js-threads/pull/26
• Local-first store in JS: https://github.com/textileio/js-threads/pull/25

New Tickets & Questions 👀

• Enable bulk update requests over the Thread APIs.
• Docs & examples! A huge update will land here over the next week.

Contact

• Feel free to join the Textile Slack.
• If you would like to discuss our work and how it may fit into your own projects, please reach out through email or setup a quick call here.