StackBlitz - Introducing WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in your browser
- Really easy to start up a new project and play around with it locally (like in CodeSandbox, but supports Node.js as well).
- Turns out CodeSandbox have an experimental support for Node.js projects as well 😳 I don't know if they run it locally or remotely, and you can't
clone
and existing Node repo and run it.
- Turns out CodeSandbox have an experimental support for Node.js projects as well 😳 I don't know if they run it locally or remotely, and you can't
- Can connect to any repo on GitHub and play around with the code (if the Node.js version matches):
- If it's my repo, I can directly
commit
to it. That's actually nice, cause it could be a very fast workflow for quick changes.
- If it's my repo, I can directly
- Can run on a Tablet or Chromebook.
- The IDE is not a full blown VS Code, even after installing as PWA:
- Settings are just a JSON file, no access to the keymap, can't install extensions, can't search in the terminal), but maybe they'll add those later.
- In CodeSandbox it much better, btw.
- Didn't manage to get the shareable link of a Next.js project output to work (only the code window).
- Not easy to start a new project from a GitHub repo (have to create a project from a starter and only then connect to a repo).
- Couldn't find how to change the Node.js version and can't install global packages, so connecting an existing project with an older version of Node doesn't work.
- The Terminal is not a full Linux terminal, only a few commands are supported (see
cd /bin
andcd /usr/bin/
).- In CodeSandbox it's a full instance.
- Has a long way to go, compared to CodeSandbox.
- Ideally CodeSandbox would add something like this in the future and it'll be groovy.