I'm a fan of a self hosted web service bound only to localhost, then you serve a HTML with all the bells and whistles from that web service. I think they used t

I'm a fan of a self hosted web service bound only to localhost, then you serve a HTML with all the bells and whistles from that web service. I think they used to call it OWIN. I guess the major downside is that you might get a localhost cert warning if you don't install a self-signed cert and a root cert in the PC's cert store (which yes, yikes)