It's very weird they don't offer it by default, but there are workarounds.

(You can use it offline)

https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb-ui/issues/62

some of the comments on that thread are surprising. Are people not aware that software can be bundled in such a way as to run on machines not having internet access?

the background is this UI is the MotherDuck UI for their cloud SaaS app. MotherDuck is a VC-backed DuckDB SaaS company, not to be confused with DuckDB Labs or the DuckDB foundation

MotherDuck decided to take their web app UI and make it a locally usable extension via DuckDB. however as noted in that thread, the architecture is a bit odd as the actual page loads once the extension is running from MotherDuck’s servers (hence the online requirement)

I don’t think it’s intentionally malicious or bad design or anything, just how this extension came about (and sounds like they’re fixing it)

disclaimer: I do know and actively work with the MotherDuck folks, I’ve also worked w/ DuckDB Labs in the past

Thanks, any recommendations on where to find the best information reference/resource for DuckDB-Wasm?

> MotherDuck is a VC-backed DuckDB SaaS company, not to be confused with DuckDB Labs or the DuckDB foundation

Separate entities, but cooperative/comprised of many overlapping people, right?

Afaik no overlapping people