Can you seed an offline first DB?

[MrVauxs]

I am looking into solutions for a two-mode OSS app, a SvelteKit website that can be hosted with (Node.js) and without (Static files) a server. Triplit looks perfect for this, but its documentation does not mention how one could use triplit seed on a local-only database for the latter usecase. Can you do that, or would I need to import the seed file myself?

[wernst]

You would like to seed a client side/on device database, correct? In this case, you can run a transaction on startup and probably save an indicator that the data has been seeded. If the data will never sync, you might be able to use @triplit/db instead of @triplit/client.

If that's not what you're looking to do can you please expand upon your use case?

[MrVauxs]

Pretty much. The goal is to have two versions of the same software for those who want it hosted as a static website instead of a fully-fledged backend.

By the sound of it looks like I will need to do the seeding myself then. That's fine.

Can you elaborate on using /db package instead of /client though? I cannot find anything about that package.

[wernst]

@triplit/db is more like a local (possibly persistent) state manager, which is used by @triplit/client under the hood and has a very similar API.

However if the app is doing anything beyond saving data locally for either site (ie data must be saved in a remote database and synced to other users), you should use @triplit/client