Leveldb / indexeddb for apps running inside XD

eklem · October 14, 2020, 6:04am

Request

For small application development it would be really cool to have leveldb / indexeddb available. Developer benefits: Don’t need to have a server up and running all the time. Scaling issues with many users would be gone. User benefits: Quicker response time. No need to trust 3rd party sites with your data, they live inside Adobe XD.
Code example (indexing data to indexeddb and searching indexeddb): https://fergiemcdowall.github.io/search-index/demo/

I’m looking into creating a Design with search data app and need search-index and pouchdb.

kerrishotts · October 21, 2018, 1:51am

Thanks for the feature request! We’ll take it under evaluation.

In the meantime, I wonder if something like https://www.npmjs.com/package/fake-indexeddb would get you part of the way (in conjunction with the XD FS APIs for persistent storage)?

eklem · October 21, 2018, 5:13am

Thanks! I’ll have a look. I’ll also start building other parts that are needed.

eklem · November 5, 2018, 9:43am

I have set up a repository for the project and will see if we can make fake-indexeddb work to easily evaluate the idea.

eklem · April 26, 2019, 6:57pm

Finally, got to run the search engine inside XD plugin environment using memdown instead of indexedDB =)

kerrishotts · April 26, 2019, 7:24pm

Woohoo!

Do you have a write-up of how to make this work? I think this would be amazing to feature on xd-awesome.

eklem · April 27, 2019, 6:23am

I’ll make a write-up when I have figured out the “Plugin TypeError” bug in the code. What’s most interesting? A clean memdown put/get example or in combination with search-index?