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This is a frustration of mine as well, but I vaguely remember someone showing something on HN where the file could essentially save itself, I think they were us
by paweladamczuk 19d ago
This is a frustration of mine as well, but I vaguely remember someone showing something on HN where the file could essentially save itself, I think they were using some file APIs for that... sadly I can't find the details anymore. But I keep running into the "HTML file opened locally can't update itself" issue repeatedly now that I build tools for myself with LLM agents.
- yoz 19d agoThe File System Access API can do this, and it works in local ("file:///") HTML files, but it's only currently supported in desktop Chromium browsers: https://caniuse.com/native-filesystem-api https://caniuse.com/native-filesystem-api However, every browser will let you download a new version of the HTML file and save it over the old one - yes, even from a local HTML file: const blob = new Blob(['<!DOCTYPE html>\n' + document.documentElement.outerHTML], { type: 'text/html' }); const a = document.createElement('a'); a.href = URL.createObjectURL(blob); a.download = 'mypage.html'; a.click(); ... but you need the user to do this for every update. So we're back to manual "Save" buttons.
- Jonovono 19d agoThis is the approach Bento took I believe (similar idea, but just for decks): https://github.com/nyblnet/bento https://github.com/nyblnet/bento. Saw it on HN a few weeks back
- fallinditch 19d agoAre you thinking of Nash? a standalone editable note as HTML that was featured on HN some time ago. https://keepworking.github.io/nash/ https://keepworking.github.io/nash/