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Are you guys okay? Don't get me wrong it's clever, but it's also insane.

If I pitched the idea of having SMB shares work online by shipping a driver that could intercept low level SMB calls and reroute them to a mock SMB server that holds the cache they would have assumed I'd lost it.

Surely the browser could help you a bit more to implement offline sites in a more integrated fashion.

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It's ultimately just a little event listener function that accepts a Request object and returns a Response object. I bundled the service worker by running a quick `npx esbuild --minify --bundle --outfile=sw.js sw.ts` command, and it produced an 18.6kb JS file in 10 milliseconds. That's not even half the size of libraries like HTMX, Alpine, and jQuery.

You can of course use the CacheStorage API directly as well (you're not obligated to use a mock server): https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CacheStorag...

I've certainly seen crazier things though. People routinely include entire copies of Ubuntu LTS in their Docker images to ship tiny HTTP servers.

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