Offline (educational) builds discussion

[CenTdemeern1]

Suggestion 1:
As suggested by me in the VC: Offline educational version can be an Electron application (or it could use Cordova to build so it could also target platforms like mobile, without too much effort)

[Chase22]

You wouldn't even neccisarely need electron for it, if it doesn't need to be a standalone app you could just compile everything including the data into one big html file

[CenTdemeern1]

That does not sound like a good idea.

[ben9583]

This is something that we'll probably be working on later rather than sooner if we get around to it. It's a cool idea, but we should focus on getting the online version working first and foremost.

We'll also have to think about how to deal with user-submitted scales. If we want to give access to these for an offline SoE, we'll need to bundle a downloader that saves scales to disk, which is a separate project. For this reason, an monolithic HTML file won't work.

[Gamer92000]

Just as a fyi, most frameworks allow to easily add a webmanifest to make it a PWA. As on of the requirements of a PWA is offline capabilities it can be installed through any browser and used offline.