Ask HN: What Single File Web Apps do you know of?

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by calebm • 10 months ago

10 22 10 months ago

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I'm trying to get a Wikipedia page for Single File Web Apps approved (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Single_File_Web_Apps), and I'm trying to find good examples of Single File Web Apps (web apps that are just a single HTML file). Please comment if you know of any.

tene80i• 10 months ago

Tiddlywiki!

calebm9• 10 months ago

Thank you. That's one of the few that I found.

calebm9• 10 months ago

Also feel free to add them to this list: https://github.com/calebmadrigal/Single-File-Web-Apps (just submit a PR)

al_borland• 10 months ago

Adminer

https://www.adminer.org/en/

calebm9• 10 months ago

I guess this would qualify as a Single File App (though maybe not a Single File Web App).

austin-cheney• 10 months ago

This is my current personal project.

https://github.com/prettydiff/webserver

The backend is multiple files but the frontend is a single file SPA. It loads with state restoration and LCP in about 105ms.

anon13953• 10 months ago

Copyparty. https://github.com/9001/copyparty

calebm9• 10 months ago

This is a valid Single File App (though not a Single File Web App)

anon13953• 10 months ago

What's the difference? It's going through the web.

runjake3• 10 months ago

I like simonw's: https://tools.simonwillison.net/

I vibecode a bunch of similar tools I use, inspired by Simon, and have them stashed where I can get to them.

calebm9• 10 months ago

Some of these are indeed Single File Web Apps (though a few of them contain links to external js and such, which would disqualify those from being a SFWA).

runjake3• 10 months ago

Sure, but that stuff could easily be embedded into the file itself. I think the spirit is still there.

jermolene2• 10 months ago

Two more that I've come across:

https://hyperclay.com/ and https://feather.wiki/

Thanks for mentioning TiddlyWiki btw.

calebm9• 10 months ago

Hyperclay involves a node js server. Feathre.wiki looks like a legit SFWA.

jermolene2• 10 months ago

Another one I'd forgotten is Wiki On A Stick. It dates from 2006 or so, just after TiddlyWiki's first release

https://stickwiki.sourceforge.net/

brazukadev• 10 months ago

I'm surprised nobody mentioned slingcode: https://slingcode.net/

By far the coolest single file web app I've seen.

Ask HN: What Single File Web Apps do you know of?

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