In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about two new services that allow you to run Node in the browser, WebContainers + NodeBox. Why Node in the browser? How does it work? And what are the differences and limitations of the services?

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Show Notes

00:25 Welcome
01:14 Sponsor: Sentry
02:45 Webcontainers and NodeBox
Introducing WebContainers
Code Sandbox
CodePen
Replit
GitHub Codespaces
06:42 Why Node.js in the browser?
11:08 How does it work?
13:10 Clientside APIs
14:27 Using iFrame to proxy messages
17:39 Are these open source?
19:22 Differences between the two services
21:10 Wes to Figma, Scott to Penpot
Figma
Penpot
24:51 Limitations

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Node in the Browser × WebContainers + NodeBox

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