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.

test/harness/harness.ts

@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ export async function generateHarness(
 }
 export async function waitForReady(harness: LiveSyncHarness): Promise<void> {
     for (let i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
-        if (harness.plugin.services.appLifecycle.isReady()) {
+        if (harness.plugin.core.services.appLifecycle.isReady()) {
             console.log("App Lifecycle is ready");
             return;
         }
@@ -122,11 +122,11 @@ export async function waitForIdle(harness: LiveSyncHarness): Promise<void> {
     for (let i = 0; i < 20; i++) {
         await delay(25);
         const processing =
-            harness.plugin.services.replication.databaseQueueCount.value +
-            harness.plugin.services.fileProcessing.totalQueued.value +
-            harness.plugin.services.fileProcessing.batched.value +
-            harness.plugin.services.fileProcessing.processing.value +
-            harness.plugin.services.replication.storageApplyingCount.value;
+            harness.plugin.core.services.replication.databaseQueueCount.value +
+            harness.plugin.core.services.fileProcessing.totalQueued.value +
+            harness.plugin.core.services.fileProcessing.batched.value +
+            harness.plugin.core.services.fileProcessing.processing.value +
+            harness.plugin.core.services.replication.storageApplyingCount.value;
 
         if (processing === 0) {
             if (i > 0) {
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ export async function waitForIdle(harness: LiveSyncHarness): Promise<void> {
 export async function waitForClosed(harness: LiveSyncHarness): Promise<void> {
     await delay(100);
     for (let i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
-        if (harness.plugin.services.control.hasUnloaded()) {
+        if (harness.plugin.core.services.control.hasUnloaded()) {
             console.log("App has unloaded");
             return;
         }