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And thanks to Chrome one severe bug will effect all around the globe. Monocultures are susceptible to pests and diseases
fixing a problem, by creating a new problem(s). that's what we do here.
For those wondering about the "why", this post details the motivation: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/09/23/client-side-webas... Basically for learning/interactive tutorials, trying out something quickly in different PHP versions (which is cumbersome right now), secure and easy demos for themes and plugins.
Pretty amazing to get all of PHP working in WASM. Next maybe we can get full MySQL, too (like the Crunchy Postgres port [0] [1]). Would also love to see it for Java, Go, Perl, Sed, and Awk :) What if Intelli-J could run in the browser? Yes please. I bet some of these even already exist. What a time to be alive, 15 years ago I'd never have guessed Javascript could evolve into this! [0] https://www.crunchydata.com/blog…
This seems like a "can't see the forest through the trees" project. If you don't want to run a server, there's no need for WordPress in the first place - just use a static site generator, or a SPA that uses static content as the backend. Have done a lot of WordPress development, and I love it, but it doesn't seem like it fits this use case better than other options.
The forest is shrinking the time and distance between code we care about and visualizing the results. WASM and an in-browser environment is the tree. Even for experienced devs it's not always readily available to have a web server, PHP, a database, and WordPress running where you can quickly make a change and test it out or demonstrate it to others.
This makes it possible to ship a WordPress site as a demo site (with pre-filled content and structure) where anyone can show off their WordPress plugin or theme without needing to have a backend or worrying about securing it.
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Pretty amazing to get all of PHP working in WASM. Next maybe we can get full MySQL, too (like the Crunchy Postgres port [0] [1]). Would also love to see it for Java, Go, Perl, Sed, and Awk :) What if Intelli-J could run in the browser? Yes please. I bet some of these even already exist. What a time to be alive, 15 years ago I'd never have guessed Javascript could evolve into this! [0] https://www.crunchydata.com/blog…
You mean to say that PHP and different versions of it are able to be simulated via JS on Web apps? Kind of crazy actually
I think this is a really compelling pattern for converting traditional server rendered apps to be offline enabled (or choosing to build new ones this way). I have seen similar examples using Python. Initially these are more of a “backed data” type app, with no offline public writes. [0] The next step is to have local/offline SQLite to server syncing, enabling writes while offline that are synced back to the server on…
I really like this idea. Distributed, loosely-coupled content creation & management that syncs up with "everyone else" on a time scale of minutes or hours.
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This just replaces the frontend framework written in JS with a frontend framework written in PHP compiled via wasm. It doesn't eliminate the need for something to manage views and state on the front end, as that's where you're executing all of your code now?
Yes indeed. The sarcasm may have been lost in my reply, running PHP in the browser is a great feat of engineering, but not a practical one.
This seems like a "can't see the forest through the trees" project. If you don't want to run a server, there's no need for WordPress in the first place - just use a static site generator, or a SPA that uses static content as the backend. Have done a lot of WordPress development, and I love it, but it doesn't seem like it fits this use case better than other options.
As noted above seven hours before your comment ;) the purpose for this project is for embedding interactive WordPress installations in documentation and to provide a playground in the browser for testing code or learning how to write plugins, etc... The forest is shrinking the time and distance between code we care about and visualizing the results. WASM and an in-browser environment is the tree. Even for experienced…
What does it even mean to run PHP in the browser... Is this supposed to be some sort of replacement for server-side PHP?
First thing that came to mind is that I could load this up on a static host, saving content in a local SQLite (or even in SQLite in S3), make changes and then export the results to S3 as static HTML files. All without ever running any PHP/SQL host. One could technically upload this to GitHub Pages. Endless possibilities!
https://adamziel.github.io/index.html
https://adamziel.github.io/tutorial.html
It also lives on netlify: https://fanciful-gnome-a4edc4.netlify.app/