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I didn't not expect that building the devtools messaging protocol for @livestore.dev would turn out to be one of the most difficult parts to build. In order to support reliable and efficient messaging (supporting transferables), I ended up building a local networking protocol called "Webmesh".

Johannes Schickling

@schickling.dev

The diagrams below show the "network" of nodes/edges/channels involved to make the Chrome extension work for LiveStore.

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Johannes Schickling

@schickling.dev

1 May 2025

NOTE: The above could be severely simplified if I didn't have the need for supporting transferable objects. developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

developer.mozilla.orgTransferable objects - Web APIs | MDNTransferable objects are objects that own resources that can be transferred from one context to another, ensuring that the resources are only available in one context at a time. Following a transfer, ...