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Awesome. I've been trying to promote this kind of Single-File Web Apps as a concept - feel free to add this to the proposed Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Single_File_Web_Apps

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The draft doesn't read as a Wikipedia article – e.g. addressing the reader as 'you'.

I don't think WP is the right place for this. It is supposed to be a tertiary source, not a place to promote concepts you want to see established.

The first reference (for the definition) also links directly to a blog post created by OP.

Edit: Actually 4 of the references on that wiki page link to either OPs blog, YouTube, or projects. I can see why this article was declined, however broadly an article could exist for this concept if there were other sources to build on.

Precisely why I created iamsingle.app as a free directory for all single page apps

Can you create a list on github with known single-file web apps?

Wikipedia is not a good place to promote ideas. It is a place where ideas in practice are documented. Github is a good place to promote stuff.

i just launched iamsingle.app to be a directory for sfwas :)

Great name for a matchmaking app, worth thousands

Already made: https://github.com/calebmadrigal/Single-File-Web-Apps. PRs welcome.

mdwiki [0] would probably qualify. Disclaimer, I created+released it in 2013. I always jokingly called it the first true single-page application - as it was a single, offline-capable .html file with all images, icons, styles etc. inlined in the same .html file.

[0]: https://mdwiki.info

Would you care listing it on iamsingle.app, a sfwa directory I run?

feel free to add it

Ilograph diagrams can be exported to standalone HTML files (like this example: [0]). Coincidentally, they also have slides (kind of) and clock in at around 560KB.

[0] https://www.ilograph.com/demo/intelligentDocumentProcessing....

https://hyperclay.com/ could be on there I think

I looked at adding hyperclay, but I think it requires server-side code.

http://beyondloom.com/decker/

This might interest you as well [1]. Similarly, here is an example of presentation using this format [2].

[1] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/Polyglot-HTML-ZIP-PNG

[2] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/Polyglot-HTML-ZIP-PNG/raw/...

Thanks for sharing this! Let me take a look. I was only aware of TiddlyWiki when I first started on Bento.

QIIME 2 creates scientific visualizations as single-file web apps, we've been using this pattern since late 2016 with a great deal of success.

Example gallery: https://view.qiime2.org/

Thanks for taking the initiative to create this page! I was disappointed with the search feature github had regarding searching these type of files.

Here are some more such tools I feel you might find interesting (or most likely you might already know them) but might be worth having in a single place as a list.

Nash is stand alone note as HTML. Source: https://github.com/keepworking/nash I recommend nash for when i feel people might get overwhelmed with tiddlywiki.

htpad: Handwritten scratch pad saves stuff to SVG. Source: https://github.com/akissinger/htpad I just use this for drawing on screen since teams annotation sucks.

Minimal PWA template. Source: https://github.com/chr15m/minimal-pwa A minimal template that should ideally work, but i wasn’t able to get it working with marimo wasm notebooks.

Currently, my focus is to use python either using pyscript or hopefully just use marimo to have python apps for simple things. I don’t want to learn js and avoided this side longer than i would have wanted. But python WASM ecosystem has grown significantly to a point where i feel investing time in building these tools.

Currently, marimo is having issues with the completely offline part but hopefully, that gets fixed!

The lack of a centralized directory prompted me to create iamsingle.app, to list all single file app in one place

We used to have these back in the days of Windows XP in the form of “HTML Applications”, though I recall them being atrocious from a security perspective.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application

Stop polluting Wikipedia.

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