Building true single file applications

[therealprof]

I'm working on applications I would like to deliver as a single file application in the end, optionally as a two-file application for smaller size.

I know the manual steps to be done to produce those. The 2-file application can be achieved by including the produced JS shim into the HTML file as a script. The 1-file application is a bit gnarlier because it requires base64 encoding of the whole WASM code and decoding it during initialisation.

I tried to use the "inline" trick in the HTML on the generated JS shim file but that doesn't work because it materialises only after the processing of the "inline" resource.

But I would really love to have that feature included directly in trunk. Conveniently (or rather not) when I ask AI about that, it hallucinates that there would be a single-file option in trunk which would allow achieving that and even after some long discussions it keeps being convinced that I'm merely holding it wrong. 😅

Any suggestions? Thoughts?