State management for the server?

[teodorlu]

@thheller gave me a good answer for a similar question a while ago:

Architecture: local state on the server and global state on the client?

Frontend and Backend are not equal. One Backend typically serves many users concurrently or even parallel. A Frontend is rarely used by multiple users at once. Frontend also typically deals with way less data than the Backend. re-frame also typically only deals with one “global” database, which you can compare to your backend SQL database if you like. There are many other components in the backend that you don’t typically see on the Frontend either (eg. HTTP servers). You may also want to run …

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I think your case with Notespace is different, though. Notespace is doing simpler than “Generic backend app 3 with external connections and a database”.