WebContainer API

#1

Post by mingw__ » Tue, Feb 14, 2023, 6:35 PM UTC

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#2

Post by Spivak » Tue, Feb 14, 2023, 9:50 PM UTC

While this is really cool the setup guide feels like a lot of work and headache for an app that's already running in your browser in step 1.

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#3

Post by ashishbijlani » Tue, Feb 14, 2023, 9:53 PM UTC

"This site is blocked due to a security threat that was discovered by the Cisco Umbrella security researchers."

Re: WebContainer API

#4

Post by pcj-github » Tue, Feb 14, 2023, 10:15 PM UTC

This looks really cool (I love anything with a filesystem API), but I'm unclear on the role of hosted proxies in this setup. Also, the licensing costs aren't clear.

"WebContainers rely on hosted proxies and server-side acceleration to enable truly instant development environments. By obtaining a WebContainer API license, your business can gain access to higher API rate limits, uptime reliability, and a range of benefits designed to help you maximize the potential of the WebContainer API in your organization."

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#5

Post by koolala » Tue, Feb 14, 2023, 10:20 PM UTC

I hope this kind of thing will be open source or standard one day.

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#6

Post by brundolf » Tue, Feb 14, 2023, 10:30 PM UTC

HN title is a little editorialized, making it sound like a new browser standard. Should be edited imo

The materials themselves also drip with exaggeration and hand-waving, talking about things like "the legacy cloud VM" (emphasis mine), "unmatched security", "spinning up the entire dev environment in milliseconds"

All of this is aside from the actual technology, which could be cool, I have no idea yet. But it rubbed me the wrong way

Re: WebContainer API

#7

Post by brundolf » Tue, Feb 14, 2023, 10:32 PM UTC

pcj-github wrote: post #4

This looks really cool (I love anything with a filesystem API), but I'm unclear on the role of hosted proxies in this setup. Also, the licensing costs aren't clear. "WebContainers rely on hosted proxies and server-side acceleration to enable truly instant development environments. By obtaining a WebContainer API license, your business can gain access to higher API rate limits, uptime reliability, and a range of benef…

That's bizarre how the major emphasis is on running things client-side instead of on a hosted VM, but then it still requires a live paid service

Re: WebContainer API

#8

Post by scoopertrooper » Tue, Feb 14, 2023, 10:57 PM UTC

brundolf wrote: post #6

HN title is a little editorialized, making it sound like a new browser standard. Should be edited imo The materials themselves also drip with exaggeration and hand-waving, talking about things like "the legacy cloud VM" (emphasis mine), "unmatched security", "spinning up the entire dev environment in milliseconds" All of this is aside from the actual technology, which could be cool, I have no idea yet. But it rubbed…

They are aiming to develop a standard... of sorts...

https://github.com/stackblitz/webcontainer-core

Re: WebContainer API

#9

Post by skeoh » Tue, Feb 14, 2023, 11:09 PM UTC

Short of building my own using this API, does a self-hosted Codesandbox/Stackblitz alternative exist? I love the idea of spinning up web containers within my corporate network so I can prototype applications using internal APIs.

Re: WebContainer API

#10

Post by bob778 » Tue, Feb 14, 2023, 11:14 PM UTC

Site is blocked due to “active security threat” so that’s not a good sign for an enterprise SaaS