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/modules/features/ModuleObsidianSettingTab.ts

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import { ObsidianLiveSyncSettingTab } from "./SettingDialogue/ObsidianLiveSyncSe
 import { AbstractObsidianModule } from "../AbstractObsidianModule.ts";
 // import { PouchDB } from "../../lib/src/pouchdb/pouchdb-browser";
 import { EVENT_REQUEST_OPEN_SETTING_WIZARD, EVENT_REQUEST_OPEN_SETTINGS, eventHub } from "../../common/events.ts";
+import type { LiveSyncCore } from "@/main.ts";
 
 export class ModuleObsidianSettingDialogue extends AbstractObsidianModule {
     settingTab!: ObsidianLiveSyncSettingTab;
@@ -29,7 +30,7 @@ export class ModuleObsidianSettingDialogue extends AbstractObsidianModule {
     get appId() {
         return `${"appId" in this.app ? this.app.appId : ""}`;
     }
-    override onBindFunction(core: typeof this.plugin, services: typeof core.services): void {
+    override onBindFunction(core: LiveSyncCore, services: typeof core.services): void {
         services.appLifecycle.onInitialise.addHandler(this._everyOnloadStart.bind(this));
     }
 }