I’ve never built a Xojo Web App but I understand that your amazing Lifeboat tool makes managing one on your own VPS a doddle.
I’m building a static website to showcase my retro collection. I have a SQLite database containing details about what’s in my collection. I want to build a simple REST API to that database that my site can query with JavaScript to show a few facts (e.g. latest thing added, total in collection, etc).
It seems like total overkill to build a full web app to do this so I was thinking about using the lightweight Express HTML server (used to be Aloe Express). This can be run as a console app. Would lifeboat be able to manage this (since it’s just a demon console app - see the demo) or am I best off making a bloated web app without a GUI just to host a REST API?
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