What solutions exist for implementing client-server applications with the ability of clients to work offline?

Question

Distributed Computing

At the moment, there is some kind of web application that solves problems, the bottleneck of which is the presence of a permanent connection to the server. It is not advisable to use web storage due to its limitations on the amount of stored information. In addition, there is a need to interact with some equipment installed on client machines.
What platforms/solutions can be considered to solve the problems described?
Required:
Work offline if there is no connection to the server (central database)
Easy and painless to update and deploy client software

Answer 1

https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit