> shipping the entirety of the server code that operates then against a local SQLite database For sure this new circle of hell is emerging. The browser is meta

> shipping the entirety of the server code that operates then against a local SQLite database For sure this new circle of hell is emerging. The browser is metastasizing into what resembles an application platform, operating system, a sandboxed virtual machine. It's becoming quite capable too, including a local file system (Origin Private File System), widely supported now. > kept in sync with the authoritative copy "on the edge" There could be a new generation of portable, cross-platform and local-first apps built with HTML, CSS, and/or any language that compiles to WebAssembly. Perhaps after decades of penance in the flames of their own making, the web world will find redemption by re-discovering and re-inventing ancient dreams of universal computational media, networked software objects inter-communicating with distributed data.. Speaking like a true denizen of the ninth circle.