Yes you do? Even if you just put html files in a folder you’re using apache or a cdn for routing. But more generally, a static site generator will usually have a file-based router.

Those are pretty damn ubiquitous though right? And not something you need to reinvent unless you have a good reason right? Also my original reply was about *browser* APIs 🤷🏼‍♂️

yeah, for me the reason to reinvent was that I needed it to run as a VSCode extension in the browser where you don’t have a real file system.