[Anamon]

DB-less is underrated. You can take it even further.

One of my favourite websites ever loads its entire main content index into the client as a JSON file. It's about 5 MBs I think, so maybe 10% of the ad and autoplay video crap most "modern" websites make you download in the first few seconds. Except that this initial download actually gives you an amazing UX in return, because all the searching, filtering, pagination etc. happens entirely client-side without further network requests. I don't know any other website that is as much of a joy to just browse through. You never wait for anything until the point that you found what you want and actually want to open a detail page. Just wonderful.