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WebSQL is dead, long live WASM SQLite.

And in all seriousness, WASM is exactly the way this should be done. It doesn’t tie a db engine to a specific standardised version. It’s far more important to develop low level block storage apis like the OPFS that WASM SQLite is using.



I'd still prefer some version of SQLite to be bundled, just to save on transfer for apps that are tiny




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