[fivelessminutes]

Just mount your zipfile using fuse and serve as normal. You can also produce and edit the zipfile that way.

https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/1-fuse-zip/

[georgia_peach]

But then you have two files and a mount to deploy instead of a single file.

Ted was trying to do a redbean like jart did with APE.

https://redbean.dev/

Which is an awesome concept that also reeks of re-purposed early '00s malware distribution trick.