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... I would like to up the anty and have web apps work in a portable vanilla HTML file WITHOUT needing a webserver to run it. E.g., double click and run. CORS be damned!

Webservers are a pain in the ass and a legitimate barrier to entry. Wouldn't it be great it you could literally send around a single file, especially to non-technical users who cant run a web server, to run your apps?

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This is what people did before web apps. Package a binary and ship it to customers.

Problems with the approach: * Customers still ask you why stuff doesn't work, except now it's their hardware * Observability is not as strong on self-hosted solutions * There is no true universal binary, so no matter what you have to put constraints up (only runs on windows, mac, etc.) * Updates are way harder

Browsers are built to browse the web, trying to remove the web out of browser apps seems illogical

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