now
Node on Web (by cemalgnlts)
browser-shell
A Linux command-line shell in the browser (by humphd)
| now | browser-shell | |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | 5 | |
| 3 | 301 | |
| - | 2.0% | |
| 3.4 | 10.0 | |
| over 1 year ago | almost 6 years ago | |
| JavaScript | HTML | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
now
Posts with mentions or reviews of now.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-10.
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Can you make your own JavaScript by implementing ECMAScript standard?
Technically you can run Node.js in the browser right now now.
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Can you use JavaScript to create an app that installs Node.Js then deploys the (or an) app?
Here is an example of downloading Node.js, extracting node executable, compiling to WASM to use node in the browser https://github.com/cemalgnlts/now.
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What sorts of things would you consider to be “advanced” javascript concepts?
Just to demonstrate how finicky folks on this r/learnjavascript are: I shared this Node on Web. Use Nodejs freely in your browser with Linux infrastructure. here and on r/node. r/node folks get it, that is, the work that had to go in to making that a reality. Folks on this r/learnjavascript evidently don't get the effort it took to make that so, after StackBlitz announced "... run Node.js, entirely inside your browser" only to walk back from that claim here https://github.com/stackblitz/webcontainer-core/issues/658#issuecomment-1091004244 "We currently do not expose a way to use WebContainer outside of StackBlitz.com".
- Node on Web. Use Nodejs freely in your browser with Linux infrastructure.
- This website lets you run linux in browser
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IT department refuses to let me install Python and other programs/languages I need for my job.
For running programming languages other than JavaScript in the browser there is Emscripten and WebAssembly. There is v86, where a Linux build is compiled to WASM. Folks have written QuickJS into a Linux build compiled to WASM, Node.js into the Linux buildroot https://github.com/cemalgnlts/now, so Python or CPython can be written to the image and loaded into the browser as WASM as well https://github.com/pyodide/pyodide.
browser-shell
Posts with mentions or reviews of browser-shell.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-23.
- This website lets you run linux in browser
- A Linux Shell in the Browser
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Show HN: Add live runnable code to your dev docs
>There are however a lot of use-cases where WASM doesn't cut it.
>Having full environments with a file system and being able to start any Linux binary is very useful.
https://humphd.github.io/browser-shell/
- Browser Shell: A Linux VM in the browser serving a website
What are some alternatives?
When comparing now and browser-shell you can also consider the following projects:
wasm-workers-server - 🚀 Develop and run serverless applications on WebAssembly
sandpack - A component toolkit for creating live-running code editing experiences, using the power of CodeSandbox.
js-compute-runtime - JavaScript SDK and runtime for building Fastly Compute applications
devbookctl - Command line tools for usedevbook.com
jor1k - Online OR1K Emulator running Linux