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People have been using tools like jsfiddle for quick experiments for years, but it's been limited to playing with client-side stuff. However, full-fledged web IDEs were maturing fast in 2022. For example, Codesandbox now provides good support for full-stack frameworks like Next and Nuxt by spinning up remote containers to run the server-side workload and emulate a "local" experience for you. Gitpod adopts a similar technology but looks more ambitious in reaching deeper into development life cycles. The most exciting among all is StackBlitz. It took the courageous step to implement a full NodeJS implementation with Web Assembly (called WebContainer). With that, your backend code can run right inside your browser. No need to spin up remote containers and no need to transmit data back and forth across the network. It's a truly local environment. This approach sounds like the only practical way of solving the problem and turning Web IDEs into mainstream usage.
People have been using tools like jsfiddle for quick experiments for years, but it's been limited to playing with client-side stuff. However, full-fledged web IDEs were maturing fast in 2022. For example, Codesandbox now provides good support for full-stack frameworks like Next and Nuxt by spinning up remote containers to run the server-side workload and emulate a "local" experience for you. Gitpod adopts a similar technology but looks more ambitious in reaching deeper into development life cycles. The most exciting among all is StackBlitz. It took the courageous step to implement a full NodeJS implementation with Web Assembly (called WebContainer). With that, your backend code can run right inside your browser. No need to spin up remote containers and no need to transmit data back and forth across the network. It's a truly local environment. This approach sounds like the only practical way of solving the problem and turning Web IDEs into mainstream usage.
Like CDN, edge networks are supposed to be deployed at a large scale and shared among many tenants. This requires isolated execution contexts (so data can't leak between tenants) with a tiny footprint (so contexts can be frequently created and disposed of without hurting performance). NodeJS is too bloated to be a viable solution. Slimmer Javascript runtimes, like Next.js's edge runtime, Cloudflare's workerd, Deno deploy, and bun, are created to fulfill this specialized job.
People have been using tools like jsfiddle for quick experiments for years, but it's been limited to playing with client-side stuff. However, full-fledged web IDEs were maturing fast in 2022. For example, Codesandbox now provides good support for full-stack frameworks like Next and Nuxt by spinning up remote containers to run the server-side workload and emulate a "local" experience for you. Gitpod adopts a similar technology but looks more ambitious in reaching deeper into development life cycles. The most exciting among all is StackBlitz. It took the courageous step to implement a full NodeJS implementation with Web Assembly (called WebContainer). With that, your backend code can run right inside your browser. No need to spin up remote containers and no need to transmit data back and forth across the network. It's a truly local environment. This approach sounds like the only practical way of solving the problem and turning Web IDEs into mainstream usage.
Like CDN, edge networks are supposed to be deployed at a large scale and shared among many tenants. This requires isolated execution contexts (so data can't leak between tenants) with a tiny footprint (so contexts can be frequently created and disposed of without hurting performance). NodeJS is too bloated to be a viable solution. Slimmer Javascript runtimes, like Next.js's edge runtime, Cloudflare's workerd, Deno deploy, and bun, are created to fulfill this specialized job.
Like CDN, edge networks are supposed to be deployed at a large scale and shared among many tenants. This requires isolated execution contexts (so data can't leak between tenants) with a tiny footprint (so contexts can be frequently created and disposed of without hurting performance). NodeJS is too bloated to be a viable solution. Slimmer Javascript runtimes, like Next.js's edge runtime, Cloudflare's workerd, Deno deploy, and bun, are created to fulfill this specialized job.