Storage

In automerge-repo "storage" refers to any implementation of StorageAdapter. You can run a Repo without a StorageAdapter but it will be entirely transient and will have to load all it's data from remote peers on every restart.

StorageAdapter is designed to be safe to use concurrently, that is to say it is safe to have multiple Repos talking to the same storage.

There are two built in storage adapters:

IndexedDB

@automerge/automerge-repo-storage-indexeddb stores data in an IndexedDB in the browser.

import { IndexedDBStorageAdapter } from "@automerge/automerge-repo-storage-indexeddb`

const storage = new IndexedDBStorageAdapter()

You can customize the object database and object store the storage uses, see the docs

As noted above, this is safe for concurrent use so you can have multiple tabs pointing at the same storage. Note that they will not live update (you may want to use a MessageChannel or BroadcastChannel based NetworkAdapter for that) but on refresh the concurrent changes will be merged as per the normal merge rules.

File system

@automerge/automerge-repo-storage-nodefs is a StorageAdapter which stores its data in a directory on the local filesystem. The location can be customized as per the docs

import { NodeFSStorageAdapter } from "@automerge/automerge-repo-storage-nodefs";
const storage = new NodeFSStorageAdapter();

As with the IndexedDB adapter this adapter is safe for multiple processes to use the same data directory.

Roll your own

StorageAdapter is designed to be easy to implement. It should be straightforward to build on top of any key/value store which supports range queries.