What if the browser was the server?

Re:What if the browser was the server? by quirissum on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @07:53AM (#48106944)

I explored the idea of shipping a full backend to the user using WASM-compiled Go, SQLite and OPFS. The whole thing is delivered via a URL but runs entirely on the user's machine.

Live Demo: https://localtrack.arthurcornil.com/ GitHub: https://github.com/arthurcornil/localtrack

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Re:What if the browser was the server? by gamebak on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @07:58AM (#48106999)

I think a lot of companies already trying to use this stuff, not SQL related but rather focusing more on the frontend. In reality, this causes more issues, like data fragmentation, versioning between different versions, security and at the end of the day it's a either a dev cost or server cost to implement this.

Usually, server costs are much much cheaper than dev cost to implement all this into FE, but it's a viable thing for the future.

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Re:What if the browser was the server? by billconan on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @08:05AM (#48107077)

how is this different from service worker?

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