Together with wasm / js this can give you super lightweight 'electron-like' stan...

iainmerrick · 2024-05-29T12:33:00.000000Z

Out of interest, why 2MB and not like 20KB, if it's using the OS's web view? (Depending on the complexity of the app, of course.)

I realise 2MB is really small these days, I just found myself thinking "2MB wouldn't even fit on a floppy disk!"

lf-non · 2024-05-29T18:42:49.000000Z

Primarily because it bundles a webserver to bridge the host code and code running in the browser.

iainmerrick · 2024-05-30T08:31:06.000000Z

Web servers aren't big! Browsers are huge but servers can be tiny.

I'm sure Caddy and nginx and the like are at least 2MB, but they have a lot of features. Googling around a bit for small web servers, I found this fun blog post: https://lipanski.com/posts/smallest-docker-image-static-webs... They ended up with a static web server in a 154KB Docker image.

sublinear · 2024-05-30T04:03:28.000000Z

> 2MB wouldn't even fit on a floppy disk!

almost yeah

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2M_(DOS)