Yeah, very similar idea. The zip trick is awesome; especially letting the browser do the decompression is brilliant. My version has a couple features you might want: automatically opening the browser when launched and shutting down the server when the last tab is closed, and a debug mode where it serves directly from the filesystem to make editing easier. Man, I can think of so many cool features I'd want to add to this as well:
CGI support. Maybe also an option to embed node or deno, or even tcc for directly executing C source as CGI scripts.
Embedded writable SQLite DBs. Appending would clearly be tricky but probably doable.
PWA support, giving you native notifications, launcher icons, and top-level windows sans browser chrome just like a native GUI app.
Option to morph into various app formats (apk, appx, ipa) and instant install on a connected phone or upload to app stores. (Wait, actually all of these formats are based on zip! So maybe this wouldn't even need that much morphing? Just some extra cruft in the zip file, some code signing BS, and maybe an embedded copy of adb.)
With all these features it might not be tiny anymore but it could make a pretty complete cross platform native app dev environment contained in a single file. Still way smaller than Electron.
CGI support. Maybe also an option to embed node or deno, or even tcc for directly executing C source as CGI scripts.
Embedded writable SQLite DBs. Appending would clearly be tricky but probably doable.
PWA support, giving you native notifications, launcher icons, and top-level windows sans browser chrome just like a native GUI app.
Option to morph into various app formats (apk, appx, ipa) and instant install on a connected phone or upload to app stores. (Wait, actually all of these formats are based on zip! So maybe this wouldn't even need that much morphing? Just some extra cruft in the zip file, some code signing BS, and maybe an embedded copy of adb.)
With all these features it might not be tiny anymore but it could make a pretty complete cross platform native app dev environment contained in a single file. Still way smaller than Electron.