Redux-persist: Realm.js as backend storage?

[fungilation]

On React Native, what about integration with https://github.com/realm/realm-js, using it as a backend storage? Redux Persist currently uses AsyncStorage as storage, is Realm a natural fit here instead?

Reference: https://github.com/realm/realm-js/issues/141#issuecomment-215973753

[rt2zz]

That would be great. I have not used realm but the project looks exciting.

Does realm require schemas are defined up front?

[fungilation]

Afaik it's an object store. Like mongo but with a nicer querying interface.
And obviously go beyond just key value store. So I'm thinking this
integration would be useful as a drop in for getting the data in initially,
while allowing for a powerful querying interface via Realm for alternate
views not directly backed by redux.
On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 10:13 AM Zack Story [email protected]
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That would be great. I have not used realm but the project looks exciting.

Does realm require schemas are defined up front?

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[liubiggun]

Are there any new developments about integration with realm?

[JulianKingman]

FYI - Realm requires a schema, so you'd have to know the data structures that you want to persist.

[kenma9123]

any progress?

[Selman555]

Just passing by from google, I really hope there will be a way to ditch AsyncStorage.
As far as my understanding goes, a "universal" scheme would have to exist. Otherwise there will have to be a lot of cleaning going on to keep things tidy and small in size.
This accepted answer convinced me to keep using redux-persist

[rt2zz]

note redux-persist v5 now has a simpler / more flexible storage model. It also no longer requires getAllKeys, so I think a realm storage engine would be trivial aside from the need to write a well defined schema.

Just three methods required: setItem, getItem, removeItem

[fungilation]

Interesting. If no one tackle this in a month or 3 I will, when I think my app will need a secondary local offline storage other than Firebase I'm using currently (which does offline but it's a blackbox regarding the persistence, and I want redux fulltext search capability at some point)

[aguynamedben]

@fungilation Would you still be willing to take a shot at implementing this? I was going to mark this issue as stale and close it, but it has a ton of upvotes (10 upvotes on the original question, 23 upvotes on a comment asking if there are any updates). It seems a lot of people would like to use Realm.js with redux-persist.

[fungilation]

Sorry no, my priorities have changed. For those interested in similar use case, I'll likely go with Apollo with https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-cache-persist instead. (which shares code with redux-persist according to their README?)