PGlite (via) PostgreSQL compiled for WebAssembly and turned into a very neat JavaScript library. Previous attempts at running PostgreSQL in WASM have worked by bundling a full Linux virtual machine - PGlite just bundles a compiled PostgreSQL itself, which brings the size down to an impressive 3.7MB gzipped.
I built this interactive demo of PGlite using Observable Framework, source code here.
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