[freitzzz]

Hi, sorry to be that guys, I just wanted to make some corrections on what you call your app a "plain html file". Your HTML file loads:

- react app - pwa manifest - tailwind css

This is not at all a "plain html" file.

[mrweasel]

One small html file, and half a megabyte of CSS and Javascript framework... oh and the html file contains 800 lines of additional Javascript.

[brazukadev]

is plain html different from single HTML? Because it is a single HTML that you can "Save as" and have one html with the working app.

[freitzzz]

In my opinion this can't even be labeled as a single HTML file, because it loads external files to complete the app. But back to the question, a "plain html" file doesn't load any external resources and is usually semantically described.

[bossyTeacher]

When people talk about a single plain HTML file, it implies that all markup and code is contained in the file and no libraries are being used

[croes]

If you can run the app without any other files and without internet then it’s plain and a single file.

[vultour]

I have a "plain Python file" that only imports TensorFlow.

[Ekaros]

Plain html is just html, no JS or CSS. This is my purist non-web dev take.

[linhns]

No way you get this with plain HTML, post title is deceptive to the core.

[dangus]

I bet $10 that it’s vibecoded, and it’s such a dirt simple calculator that perhaps it was even done with a single prompt.

The AI just picked react because that’s the most common framework.

[mavamaarten]

That's the first thing I thought when opening it. Sure looks like a "make me an app" response that Claude would output.

I mean nothing wrong with that, I needed a silly calculator thingimabob too yesterday (for some CRC checks on a piece of text) and Claude quickly cooked something up for me.

But I'm not writing blog posts about it, releasing the tool in the wild, and claiming I wrote it. Blegh.

[b_e_n_t_o_n]

Why apologize and do it instead of not do it and no apologize?

[bigyabai]

Pedantry earns upvotes like bread beggars butter. I don't blame them.

[andrepd]

It's a valid point lol. "A single html file" for me is a Ciechanowski page, not something that needs many gigabytes of bloat to compile.

[taude]

You are that guy. It was obvious that he built some interactive app packaged in a single html file. There's going to be javascript and stuff in there...doah.

EDIT: I wouldn't have expected external dependencies, though.