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EGreg on July 14, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entire...

The question is — how does your WebAssembly in the browser run a server that can listen for incoming requests and serve the page? I don’t get that part at all.

sylvinus on July 14, 2023 [–]

I think this is the part done with the Service Worker, which intercepts network requests: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Service_Wor...

EGreg on July 16, 2023 | [–]

But how can anyone other than the user actually access this server? Like if I serve wordpress off a phone?

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