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• electric

Projektgeschichte

The electric-sql/electric repository was created in June 2022. The project grew around the local-first application problem: keeping local UI state fast while retaining Postgres as the source database.

Electric's own 1.0 release notes describe a major 2024 rebuild that made the sync engine simpler, faster, more reliable, and more scalable. The project reached beta in December 2024 and then announced 1.0 general availability in March 2025 with stable APIs for the core sync service.

Adoptionsgeschichte

Electric's adoption story is tied to production local-first and real-time workloads rather than traditional database administration. The 1.0 announcement cites production users, managed Electric Cloud, open-source users, and workloads that process large volumes of sync traffic.

The project has also broadened through integrations and examples: the official docs list TypeScript clients, React integration, framework integrations, deployment guides, demos, and the related PGlite project.

Wie es verwendet wird

A typical Electric setup runs the sync service in front of a Postgres database with logical replication enabled and a `DATABASE_URL`. Clients consume the HTTP API directly or through libraries such as the TypeScript client and React hooks.

Developers use Electric when they want local-first or real-time application behavior without writing their own fan-out, partial replication, and data delivery layer. The README highlights Shapes as the primitive for selecting the subset of Postgres data to sync.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Electric is package-nerd interesting because it packages database synchronization as a developer-service CLI/runtime rather than a framework-only library. It sits at the intersection of Postgres, local-first apps, HTTP APIs, client packages, and deployment tooling.

Zeitleiste

• 2022: GitHub repository created.
• 2024: Electric rebuilt around a simpler, faster sync engine.
• 2024: Beta announced with production users and updated docs.
• 2025: Electric 1.0 released with stable sync service APIs.

Related projects

• Electric is related to Postgres logical replication, PGlite, TanStack integrations, Phoenix integrations, local-first data libraries, and real-time sync systems such as Replicache or custom WebSocket fan-out services.

Quellen

• https://github.com/electric-sql/electric
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/electric-sql/electric/main/README.md
• https://electric-sql.com/docs
• https://electric-sql.com/blog/2025/03/17/electricsql-1.0-released
• https://api.github.com/repos/electric-sql/electric