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by about3fitty 323 days ago
I can unironically imagine legitimate use cases for this idea. I’d wager that many DBs could fit unnoticed into the data footprint of a modern SPA load.
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Yes, probably a lot of storefronts could package up their entire inventory database in a relatively small (comparatively) JSON file, and avoid a lot of pagination and reloads. Regardless, my comment was, of course, intended as sarcasm.
Stream the db to the clients post page load and validate client requests against a cache on the server.