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Huh, this is a funny one. I had this idea a long time ago when doing some napkin design of a "static wiki". Problem was the querying didn't fit how software optimizes content delivery, so millions of people requesting from a single database would most likely be difficult to accomplish in a performant manner. Secondarily writing to said database would of course be impossible because locking, and you'd need a server anyways to do any sort session based submittal of data.

Very nice for read-only static data sets for small sites though. Infact this may be very useful for county mapping systems, converting over the GIS data to tables in SQLite.

If at all possible it would be better if this could be in ES5 (no async await) javascript, only very very modern browsers are going to be able to access it. People with older phones (which is many) wouldn't be able to use it at all.



> People with older phones (which is many) wouldn't be able to use it at all.

Caniuse.com does not agree with this assertion.


web statistics aren't a good reflection of use cases. It assumes that the percentage of people using browsers are using browsers, when often people whom are using an important service, namely a government service, are not often using other services.


Just transpile it




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