And thanks for the link. Let me implement this single HTML feature, it looks nice to have!

tamnd • today at 5:43 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

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Yeah. An idea on top of that is to bundle an entire website into a single HTML page, with vendored JavaScript to enable client-side routing (all of the original pages' JS is still stripped out).

That way, the page is self-contained as it is, but requires no bundled binary code to serve the site. It is actually safer security-wise.

The vendored script can be as simple as this:

  const site = {
    "path-1": "<!DOCTYPE html><html> ... </html>",
    "path-2": "<!DOCTYPE html><html> ... </html>",
    // More paths
  }

  function attachListeners() {
    for (const [path, html] of Object.entries(site)) {
      document.querySelector(`a[href=${path}]`).onclick = () => {
        document.documentElement.outerHTML = html
        attachListeners()
      }
    }
  }

  document.addEventListeners("DOMContentLoaded", attachListeners)

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