As for posting to HN absolutely no thanks. These people are so fucking hostile there is no accomplishment too small to tear apart for entertainment here. I have no interest in it.
You make a really good point.
plv8 doesn't have network access, but this can be done with PostgREST.
That said, we actually restricted the HTML content-type on our platform so that users cannot do this. This is because we don't want to get too deep into the "frontend" world, with ever-changing frameworks.
We've found that if we offer a small feature, our users demand feature-completeness. In this case we're better-off waiting until we have solve a few of the major database tasks (branching + migrations, scale-to-zero, edge caching, etc)
FWIW, I think it's very cool serving HTML through PostgREST. I would be pretty happy to do this personally
Long time user, first time caller. Besides the DO droplet, separately I also use Supabase and I love it.
I understand completely about restricting the content type, maybe just for now. Fun fact: I work around it by serving up text/xml plus XSLT. I'm sure you don't mind.
Not at all, I hear "application/xhtml+xml" is a nice hack from some of the team
I did this for a side project a few months ago and even used postgrest to serve the page with correct headers for html. It felt simultaneously really cursed and obvious. Shit you could even use plv8 to run mustache or whatever in the db if you really wanted to piss people off.