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Out of interest, why 2MB and not like 20KB, if it's using the OS's web view? (Depending on the complexity of the app, of course.) I realise 2MB is really small
by iainmerrick 2y ago
Out of interest, why 2MB and not like 20KB, if it's using the OS's web view? (Depending on the complexity of the app, of course.)
I realise 2MB is really small these days, I just found myself thinking "2MB wouldn't even fit on a floppy disk!"
- lf-non 2y agoPrimarily because it bundles a webserver to bridge the host code and code running in the browser.
- iainmerrick 2y agoWeb servers aren't big! Browsers are huge but servers can be tiny. I'm sure Caddy and nginx and the like are at least 2MB, but they have a lot of features. Googling around a bit for small web servers, I found this fun blog post: https://lipanski.com/posts/smallest-docker-image-static-website https://lipanski.com/posts/smallest-docker-image-static-webs... They ended up with a static web server in a 154KB Docker image.
- sublinear 2y ago> 2MB wouldn't even fit on a floppy disk! almost yeah https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2M_(DOS) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2M_(DOS)