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/LiveSyncCommands.ts

@@ -16,18 +16,22 @@ import { createInstanceLogFunction } from "@/lib/src/services/lib/logUtils.ts";
 
 let noticeIndex = 0;
 export abstract class LiveSyncCommands {
+    /**
+     * @deprecated This class is deprecated. Please use core
+     */
     plugin: ObsidianLiveSyncPlugin;
+    core: LiveSyncCore;
     get app() {
         return this.plugin.app;
     }
     get settings() {
-        return this.plugin.settings;
+        return this.core.settings;
     }
     get localDatabase() {
-        return this.plugin.localDatabase;
+        return this.core.localDatabase;
     }
     get services() {
-        return this.plugin.services;
+        return this.core.services;
     }
 
     // id2path(id: DocumentID, entry?: EntryHasPath, stripPrefix?: boolean): FilePathWithPrefix {
@@ -41,9 +45,10 @@ export abstract class LiveSyncCommands {
         return this.services.path.getPath(entry);
     }
 
-    constructor(plugin: ObsidianLiveSyncPlugin) {
+    constructor(plugin: ObsidianLiveSyncPlugin, core: LiveSyncCore) {
         this.plugin = plugin;
-        this.onBindFunction(plugin, plugin.services);
+        this.core = core;
+        this.onBindFunction(this.core, this.core.services);
         this._log = createInstanceLogFunction(this.constructor.name, this.services.API);
         __$checkInstanceBinding(this);
     }
@@ -51,7 +56,7 @@ export abstract class LiveSyncCommands {
     abstract onload(): void | Promise<void>;
 
     _isMainReady() {
-        return this.plugin.services.appLifecycle.isReady();
+        return this.services.appLifecycle.isReady();
     }
     _isMainSuspended() {
         return this.services.appLifecycle.isSuspended();