SQLite is an embedded database that's used by thousands of applications. Instead of needing a server and a connection system like most databases, SQLite allows us to utilize it like any other library. But what's kept us from developing with this type of power in the browser has been a way to import this without needing native bindings. To utilize it in Node.js, we would need to utilize something like node-gyp and then create JavaScript bindings to the underlying C code.
We have a way of utilizing this database in the browser without needing these native bindings, thanks to WebAssembly. For a version that has already been compiled for us, go to https://github.com/kripken/sql.js/ and pull the repository into our local system. Let's go ahead and set up our static server to bring in all of the files for us. Follow these steps:
- Create...
