Connect to a Database from CSS

You can’t connect to a database from within CSS, Right? Or can you?

Leveraging Houdini and SQL.js — which is SQLite compiled to JavaScript to serve as in-memory DB — you can. Using some Custom Properties, you can pass in queries to be executed.

.query-display {
  background: paint(sql-css);
}

main {
  --sql-query: SELECT * FROM genre;
  --sql-database: url(...);
}

Hahaha, just brilliant! 😅

Yes, I can connect to a DB in CSS →
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