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