Building a 100% Client-Side PDF Editor: Why I Chose Astro and WebAssembly

<p>MergePDF is a 100% client-side PDF tool. No backend, no uploads, no sign-up. Here's the architecture, the tricky parts, and why privacy is a feature, not a setting.<br /> Every

<p>A few years ago, almost every "online tool" worked the same way: you upload your file to a server, wait for a response, then download the result. Simple, but it has real costs

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<p>I used to shrug at "just upload it to that free merge site" notes in internal wikis. Then I watched an onboarding checklist tell new hires to combine their passport scan and

<p>As developers, we all have that exact same workflow. You get a massive blob of JSON from an API, or a JWT token from a staging environment, and you instinctively Google "JSON

<blockquote> <p><em>Sometimes the best code is the code you don't ship to the browser.</em><br /> </p> </blockquote> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre

<p>A year ago I was rebuilding the same <code>&lt;PhoneInput&gt;</code> for the third time across three different projects. Each time I reached for