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There are browser apis that could make it work as an app. Web app does not imply server side app

• cosmic_cheese 1y ago
  Technically true, but when no server is involved (running on localstorage, etc) everything gets dramatically more flaky. The user experience would suffer.
  • CharlesW 1y ago
    Out of curiosity, is this take informed by relatively recent personal experience? I experimented with storing a bunch of data locally using OPFS with DuckDB/Wasm, and it seemed to work fine in Safari and Chrome.
    • cosmic_cheese 1y ago
      It's more aggregated experience over time. These issues often don't surface in the short term but instead show up over time with bugs in implementations in particular browser versions and whatnot. In some cases data just gets wiped and in others it gets corrupted, and with no server component and any backups stored in the same medium as primary storage you're left without recourse.
      • em-bee 1y ago
        i built a "local" webapp once where the save button produced a file to download, in addition to keeping things in local storage. then if your localstorage got wiped, you changed browsers or whatever, you could load that savefile to restore your data.