11th March, 2026

Now, Self-hosted LiveSync has finally begun to be split into the Self-hosted LiveSync plugin for Obsidian, and a properly abstracted version of it.
This may not offer much benefit to Obsidian plugin users, or might even cause a slight inconvenience, but I believe it will certainly help improve testability and make the ecosystem better.
However, I do not see the point in putting something with little benefit into beta, so I am handling this on the alpha branch. I would actually preferred to create an R&D branch, but I was not keen on the ampersand, and I feel it will eventually become a proper beta anyway.

### Refactored

- Separated `ObsidianLiveSyncPlugin` into `ObsidianLiveSyncPlugin` and `LiveSyncBaseCore`.
- Now `LiveSyncCore` indicates the type specified version of `LiveSyncBaseCore`.
- Referencing `plugin.xxx` has been rewritten to referencing the corresponding service or `core.xxx`.

### Internal API changes

- Storage Access APIs are now yielding Promises. This is to allow more limited storage platforms to be supported.

### R&D

- Browser-version of Self-hosted LiveSync is now in development. This is not intended for public use now, but I will eventually make it available for testing.
- We can see the code in `src/apps/webapp` for the browser version.

src/features/ConfigSync/PluginCombo.svelte

@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@
     export let plugin: ObsidianLiveSyncPlugin;
     export let isMaintenanceMode: boolean = false;
     export let isFlagged: boolean = false;
-    const addOn = plugin.getAddOn<ConfigSync>(ConfigSync.name)!;
+    $: core = plugin.core;
+    const addOn = plugin.core.getAddOn<ConfigSync>(ConfigSync.name)!;
     if (!addOn) {
         Logger(`Could not load the add-on ${ConfigSync.name}`, LOG_LEVEL_INFO);
         throw new Error(`Could not load the add-on ${ConfigSync.name}`);
@@ -334,13 +335,13 @@
             Logger(`Could not find local item`, LOG_LEVEL_VERBOSE);
             return;
         }
-        const duplicateTermName = await plugin.confirm.askString("Duplicate", "device name", "");
+        const duplicateTermName = await core.confirm.askString("Duplicate", "device name", "");
         if (duplicateTermName) {
             if (duplicateTermName.contains("/")) {
                 Logger(`We can not use "/" to the device name`, LOG_LEVEL_NOTICE);
                 return;
             }
-            const key = `${plugin.app.vault.configDir}/${local.files[0].filename}`;
+            const key = `${plugin.core.services.API.getSystemConfigDir()}/${local.files[0].filename}`;
             await addOn.storeCustomizationFiles(key as FilePath, duplicateTermName);
             await addOn.updatePluginList(false, addOn.filenameToUnifiedKey(key, duplicateTermName));
         }