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Ask HN: What Single File Web Apps do you know of?
9 points by calebm 1 day ago | 15 comments
  • anon1395
    Copyparty. https://github.com/9001/copyparty
    • calebm
      This is a valid Single File App (though not a Single File Web App)
      • anon1395
        What's the difference? It's going through the web.
        • calebm
          A "web app" must run in a browser (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_application).
  • runjake
    I like simonw's: https://tools.simonwillison.net/

    I vibecode a bunch of similar tools I use, inspired by Simon, and have them stashed where I can get to them.

    • calebm
      Some of these are indeed Single File Web Apps (though a few of them contain links to external js and such, which would disqualify those from being a SFWA).
      • runjake
        Sure, but that stuff could easily be embedded into the file itself. I think the spirit is still there.
        • codingdave
          If you count the scripts that could be embedded, any React app could be a single file. I don't think that matches the spirit, though.
        • calebm
          Agreed.
  • al_borland
    Adminer

    https://www.adminer.org/en/

    • calebm
      I guess this would qualify as a Single File App (though maybe not a Single File Web App).
  • austin-cheney
    This is my current personal project.

    https://github.com/prettydiff/webserver

    The backend is multiple files but the frontend is a single file SPA. It loads with state restoration and LCP in about 105ms.

  • calebm
    Also feel free to add them to this list: https://github.com/calebmadrigal/Single-File-Web-Apps (just submit a PR)
  • tene80i
    Tiddlywiki!
    • calebm
      Thank you. That's one of the few that I found.
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