Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HTML file

Re:Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HT... by Sammi on Monday August 18, 2025 @04:45AM (#44938579)

To take this concept one step further towards perfection, you would want to lose the backend completely and persist directly to a git repo using https://isomorphic-git.org/

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Re:Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HT... by felipeccastro on Monday August 18, 2025 @07:01AM (#44939313)

And if keeping in local storage a list of all pages, you can create an index html automatically in a predefined format which makes it more of a database rather than loose documents.

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Re:Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HT... by dirkc on Monday August 18, 2025 @11:33AM (#44941763)

I like the idea! You would still need something to serve the HTML file, but that isn't so bad.

But in my experience the potential audience shrinks significantly once anything git related is expected from a user.

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Re:Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HT... by koolala on Monday August 18, 2025 @11:34AM (#44941779)

It stinks github or gitlab or any free git hosting providers didn't work with isomorphic git.

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