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Local-First Software Is Easier to Scale

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175 points chilipepperhott | 3 comments | 05 Jul 25 15:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.299s | source
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myflash13 ◴[05 Jul 25 17:30 UTC] No.44474202[source]▶
Closest thing to true “serverless”: entire MVC app (Django/Rails/Laravel) in the browser with WASM and data persistence by SQLite over CDN.

All the server has to do then is serve binaries, all the business logic is in the client.

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1. bcoates ◴[05 Jul 25 18:46 UTC] No.44474669[source]▶
What's WASM adding here? Without that you're just describing an ordinary SPA+CDN
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2. myflash13 ◴[05 Jul 25 19:20 UTC] No.44474883[source]▶
The ability to port existing apps to serverless. See for example Wordpress in WASM.
3. williamstein ◴[05 Jul 25 19:21 UTC] No.44474887[source]▶
WASM adds the ability to run a local copy of SQLite (or even PostgreSQL) entirely in the browser.