Looks like what I've been building is quite similar to what the foundation of Patchwork-26 is. Lots of "tiny apps" (atomization of software, loosely coupled) + just the web. Local-first and where everything revolves around the content (data-first, can use preferred UI/view). Happy to see this! 🎉
The Architecture Of Local-First Web Development — Smashing Magazine
An honest perspective on building local-first web apps in 2026, written for developers who’ve been doing this long enough to be skeptical of silver bullets.
Native Development
I’ve been on a long-term quest to find a simple, fast, and user-friendly way to develop native applications for a variety of platforms, and this page holds ...
Between Principle and Pragmatism: Reflections on Prototyping Computational Media with Webstrates
Computational media describes a vision of software, which, in contrast to application-centric software, is (1) malleable, so users can modify existing functionality, (2) computable, so users can run custom code, (3) distributable, so users can open documents across different devices, and (4) shareable, so users can easily share and collaborate on documents. Over the last ten years, the Webstrates and Codestrates projects aimed at realizing this vision of computational media. Webstrates is a server application that synchronizes the DOM of websites. Codestrates builds on top of Webstrates and adds an authoring environment, which blurs the use and development of applications. Grounded in a chronology of the development of Webstrates and Codestrates, we present eight tensions that we needed to balance during their development. We use these tensions as an analytical lens in three case studies and a game challenge in which participants created games using Codestrates. We discuss the results of the game challenge based on these tensions and present key takeaways for six of them. Finally, we present six lessons learned from our endeavor to realize the vision of computational media, demonstrating the balancing act of weighing the vision against the pragmatics of implementing a working system.
Fresh - The simple, approachable, productive web framework.
Fresh features just-in-time edge rendering, island based interactivity, and zero-configuration TypeScript support. Fast to write; fast to run.
Local-first Software
Exploring software architecture that returns data to users and enables collaboration in every tool.
Miren - Everything You Need. Everywhere You Need It.
Miren is a deployment platform designed for small teams that provides tools to deploy, manage, and scale applications.
Elanis/web-to-desktop-framework-comparison
An objective comparison of multiple frameworks that allow us to "transform" our web apps to desktop applications.
Peter Van Hardenberg - Local First: the secret master plan
Put State in the Right Place - Delaney Gillilan | SSW 2026
syxanash/awesome-web-desktops
Websites, web apps, portfolios that look like desktop operating systems
Semble Setup Guide - Cosmik Labs
Making the most of Semble: Bookmarklet, Progressive Web App, and iOS shortcut
Semble Setup Guide - Cosmik Labs
Making the most of Semble: Bookmarklet, Progressive Web App, and iOS shortcut
The small web is beautiful
A vision for the "small web", small software, and small architectures.
Still trying to figure out how to talk about our Patchwork project: it's a local-first malleable software system that builds on our past work. It's shadertoy and a markdown editor but it's also a minecraft clone and an ohmjs programming language workbench. It's also none of those things, or more?
