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I’m still annoyed I didn’t join the SQLite party until after browsers sunset support for it.

What goes around comes around, sqlite now distributes WASM builds that run in the browser: https://sqlite.org/wasm/doc/trunk/index.md

It's not the same. It's not a massive binary, but it's not tiny either.

Compressed less than 800kB including some tests and demo code. I wouldn't want to include that on the homepage, but as part of a webapp it would be completely fine.

What did they sunset?

Web SQL, which was Chrome's implemented proposal to add SQLite to the JavaScript standard library. Chrome said they scrapped it because SQLite wasn't really intended to be used in a security environment as hostile as the web.

Mozilla did not implement it because it's not any kind of standard subset of SQL and no such subset is agreed upon while also useful. They didn't want to tie web standards, supported features in browser releases, and SQLite's release lifecycle to each other.

I heard that since there’s only one SQLite vendor and nothing else comparable to allow for multiple options, they wouldn’t support it.

I would like to hear more about the hostile environment comment. I thought they sandboxed every page. Cross origin data theft?

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