nodebox-runtime vs now

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nodebox-runtime		now
	Project
3	Mentions	8
673	Stars	3
1.3%	Growth	-
3.6	Activity	3.4
5 months ago	Latest Commit	10 months ago
TypeScript	Language	JavaScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.

nodebox-runtime

Posts with mentions or reviews of nodebox-runtime. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-24.

Vscode.dev: Local Development with Cloud Tools
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jul 2023

Oh I think I found the answer.
> Nodebox is a runtime for executing Node.js modules in the browser.
https://github.com/codesandbox/nodebox-runtime
Node on Web. Use Nodejs freely in your browser with Linux infrastructure.
8 projects | /r/node | 3 Jul 2023

"Nodebox is a runtime for executing Node.js modules in the browser. Why we built Nodebox With sandpack-bundler, we allowed any developer anywhere to instantly create a fast, local, shareable playground inside their browser, without having to wait forever to install dependencies and fight with devtools. This improves the learning, experimentation and sharing experience of client-side JavaScript code." nodebox-runtime
[AskJS] Has anybody implemented and compiled ServiceWorker specification to a standalone executable?
19 projects | /r/javascript | 4 Mar 2023

There is also https://github.com/codesandbox/nodebox-runtime. However, we can already do that using an iframe or window.open().

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.

Can you make your own JavaScript by implementing ECMAScript standard?
10 projects | /r/learnjavascript | 10 Dec 2023

Technically you can run Node.js in the browser right now now.
Can you use JavaScript to create an app that installs Node.Js then deploys the (or an) app?
2 projects | /r/node | 8 Jul 2023

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.
What sorts of things would you consider to be “advanced” javascript concepts?
3 projects | /r/learnjavascript | 4 Jul 2023

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.
2 projects | /r/learnjavascript | 3 Jul 2023

8 projects | /r/node | 3 Jul 2023
This website lets you run linux in browser
8 projects | /r/linux | 23 Jun 2023
IT department refuses to let me install Python and other programs/languages I need for my job.
2 projects | /r/webdev | 19 Jun 2023

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.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing nodebox-runtime and now you can also consider the following projects:

wasmedge-quickjs - A high-performance, secure, extensible, and OCI-complaint JavaScript runtime for WasmEdge.

js-compute-runtime - JavaScript SDK and runtime for building Fastly Compute applications

wasm-workers-server - 🚀 Develop and run serverless applications on WebAssembly

wasm-jseval - A safe eval library based on WebAssembly and Duktape/QuickJS.

sm-wasi-demo - Online SpiderMonkey WASI shell

run - Safely execute untrusted code with ESM syntax support, dynamic injection of ESM modules from URL or plain JS code, and granular access control based on whitelisting for each JS object.

jor1k - Online OR1K Emulator running Linux

webhoster - HTTP/HTTPS/HTTP2 Web Hoster

browser-shell - A Linux command-line shell in the browser

native-messaging-deno - Deno Native Messaging Host

v86 - x86 PC emulator and x86-to-wasm JIT, running in the browser