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Re: WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in the browser

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Post by waheoo » Thu, May 20, 2021, 5:28 PM UTC

ericmsimons wrote: post #2

Hi all- CEO of StackBlitz/author of this blog post here. Happy to answer any questions! (Also, thanks for posting this bpierre!)

That isn't a blog post. That's an ad.

Can you link to the blog post where you actually discuss literally any of the technical stack in any depth further than one sentence of wow more pizzaz much fast.

Re: WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in the browser

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Post by waheoo » Thu, May 20, 2021, 5:30 PM UTC

ericmsimons wrote: post #6

sigmonsays wrote: post #4

Are any demo applications created? What is memory usage like for a simple application?

Yep- if you go to https://stackblitz.com you can start a Next.js, GraphQL, etc dev environment in one click.

... in chrome.

Re: WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in the browser

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Post by waheoo » Thu, May 20, 2021, 5:31 PM UTC

Title needs fixing. This is chrome only.

Re: WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in the browser

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Post by ericmsimons » Thu, May 20, 2021, 5:32 PM UTC

lucasmullens wrote: post #8

> Faster than your local environment. Builds complete up to 20% faster and package installs complete >= 5x faster than yarn/npm. How? Isn't this using npm?

It's using a custom npm client we've built called Turbo. You can read more about the v1 version of Turbo here: https://medium.com/stackblitz-blog/introducing-turbo-5x-fast...

We haven't released any more info on Turbo v2 yet but will soon.

Re: WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in the browser

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Post by ericmsimons » Thu, May 20, 2021, 5:33 PM UTC

waheoo wrote: post #13

Title needs fixing. This is chrome only.

For now. It works in Firefox today (minor issues keeping it feature flagged for now) and Safari is close to shipping WASM Threads, so this will likely work on all major browsers by EOY.

Re: WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in the browser

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Post by ttt0 » Thu, May 20, 2021, 5:33 PM UTC

I was kinda hoping it was something crazy like nodejs with v8 engine compiled to wasm lol

Re: WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in the browser

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Post by beebeepka » Thu, May 20, 2021, 5:33 PM UTC

I am definitely going to try this first thing tomorrow

Re: WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in the browser

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Post by ericmsimons » Thu, May 20, 2021, 5:36 PM UTC

ttt0 wrote: post #16

I was kinda hoping it was something crazy like nodejs with v8 engine compiled to wasm lol

Did you read the post? You might be pleasantly surprised :)

Re: WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in the browser

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Post by 1023bytes » Thu, May 20, 2021, 5:37 PM UTC

huggyfee wrote: post #10

I'm trying to get my head around how the networking of it works. Is local.webcontainer.io being overridden somehow on the browser like a hosts file might do? Trying to figure out how I'm hitting that URL from another tab

Must be some sort of tunneling, because it works outside the browser too

Re: WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in the browser

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Post by beebeepka » Thu, May 20, 2021, 5:37 PM UTC

nyadesu wrote: post #7

arodyginc wrote: post #5

Isn't it awful? Now each smart ass web developer will start sending down scripts with nodejs to enable 'rich' user experience

I think that wouldn't be a problem, as long as people get used to containerize what they write

Well, it's called WebContainers. One would hope everything is containerised