Webpack

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Loading the tens of Javascript files we have in the engine can quickly become slow. To offset this, we could look into doing something like Webpack, which will bundle our binaries together into a proper "executable" and de-bundle at runtime. Thoughts? This would be a hell of a process, but it would serve us well in both the long term and the short term.

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We should probably also switch over to a NodeJS-based app--if only for faster and easier-to-understand file operations. I, however, hate Node with a passion, and so if we can cook up our own server in Python or C that would be amazing. (I'd prefer C, but I know you'd prefer Python @Ian-16777216)

[Ian-16777216]

I can easily cook up a python server. What would it need to do?

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Routing and filesystem operations for a start.

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Upon further consideration, Webpack is heavily NodeJS-based. This makes it completely infeasible for Selenium--I refuse to integrate this project with Node. However, there are alternatives like Vite which I haven't yet looked far into. They may prove useful.