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tancoptoday at 11:01 AM1 replyview on HN

> it's unsolvable since you need to download the whole world (a few MBs) to have the app running on your browser

another reason why the web should move from whole app bundling to content addressed CDNs for library code. you would only need to download one copy for each framework version not every site. and its easy to make it decentralized with IPFS if you want.


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d_watttoday at 12:19 PM

Shared caches stopped working years back, to close a security hole. They're redownloaded per domain now. https://dev.to/rstacruz/public-cdns-arent-useful-anymore-2b6...