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Local storage is obviously not an option - imagine your project has a few gigabytes. Coding example was just to illustrate the problem quickly for everybody to understand what the issue is.

Forcing user to generate/download ZIP at some well-defined points in time is a horrible UX idea; in addition it leads to desynced content of files and local storage. Browser's local storage can also disappear if SQLite gets corrupted, making it a nice SPOF for all PWAs that are installed. Imagine not losing data just for one app, but for all of them.




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