I’ve had a personal domain since 2007 and tested many frameworks and self-host solutions. Most of them were based on C++, PHP, Python, GO, and JS. Believe it or not, back in 2005-2006 it was popular to write web apps using a system language like C / C++ and use a (CGI) Common Gateway Interface to execute compiled programs. In fact, PHP was inspired a lot by C, as it first wanted to be just a templating engine for C. I didn’t touch PHP for a few years, even though I used most PHP frameworks, but ...
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I have an extension that controls the proxy of a browser. Before the rewrite, it was pretty slim, written in plain Valina JS, and I didn't touch it for three years.
But manifest V3 will be mandatory as of June this year, so I rewrote it. It took me a few hours, and I converted it into a Svelte TS extension.
Added a few new features, like the possibility to auto-disconnect if the proxy is failing, start the proxy with the browser, being able to verify a proxy is valid, and dark theme(as defaul...
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The only perceivable reason to want to secure a SPA without a backend is to avoid costs as much as possible. Securing without a backend is an almost impossible task. But still, you can secure some parts using browser encryption before building and deploying.
And you can avoid huge costs since you can serve millions of static high-quality requests virtually free.
But then again, what good is that? After all, without an API, or a database, you practically serve something akin to a book, and you can...
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To start, I'll say what party town is, in a nutshell: it's a tool to get some of your execution out of the main thread and into a worker.
It's doing that by communicating between the worker and the main thread, which will primarily execute DOM updates.
More in-depth, this concept works by you marking the scripts as `not javascript` then those scripts are forwarded to the worker. If those scripts are external, they must be passed through a proxy that will get around CORS.
Now most common use for Pa...
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