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Years ago, back when I was in undergrad, I wanted to write a simple command line application. This application needed to have persistent data, and for that I would need some sort of database. The specifics of that application aren't important, just know I wanted the database to:

1. Start up when the program started up and shut down when the program shut down
2. Startup should be as fast as possible, shutdown could take however long…

Zola is wonderful. It builds quickly, it's extremely configurable, but it is (by design) not well suited for interactive elements or complex JavaScript. I hadn't thought I wanted that until I saw some on Amos's site. He ended up using iframes to manage that integration, which is a perfectly acceptable solution. But it did make me wonder: can we accomplish the same result without all of that nasty ugly HTML? Can we just write some clean JS and call it a day?

Let's find out…