This is so awesome for two reasons, Postgress isn't exactly easy to setup, this makes it so much easer for tutorials, anything that makes teaching it quicker is good!

It's also an amazing demonstration of the power of WASM, I am utterly convinced that DBs running in browser via WASM on top of the "coming soon" filesystem/block store api [0] will be the future of all offline first apps. I think it's going to be SQLite that really sines here (it will be a smaller package), but if you can run Postgres in browser, you potentially have a close alignment between your server and browser implementations.

I love the idea of running Django in browser via PyScript with Postgres!

0: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/FileSystem - This API doesn't grant access to the users file system, but a local virtual one just for the website. It will operate at the block level so can be used to provide efficient persistent storage for WASM DBs.

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Edit rather than replying individually:

It’s so important when teaching people a new thing, like sql, to hit the ground running. A lot of these people will have no experience with Docker, package managers or compiling from source. It’s so important to make technology accessible to all. This does that! Imagine high school kids having a lesson on SQL and running Postgres’s just by opening a webpage!

We shouldn’t assume that someone learning Postgres, or just SQL via it, is a developer with experience of other areas of development or system administration.