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Re:WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in the browser by simonw on Thursday May 20, 2021 @01:14PM (#27223971)
Is this all open source?

I'm fascinated in learning more about how you run a web server with this - the article says "WebContainers include a virtualized TCP network stack that's mapped to your browser's ServiceWorker API" but I'd love to understand a bit more about how that works.

Since this is all done with WebAssembly are you planning on targeting other stacks such as Python? The amount of time I lose helping other people getting their Python development environments to work remains horrifying.

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Re:WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in the browser by ericmsimons on Thursday May 20, 2021 @02:29PM (#27225150)
We'll be open sourcing core parts of WebContainer as we move towards GA. We have some additional technical info in our core WG repo: https://github.com/stackblitz/webcontainer-core

We also did an hour long podcast a few months back that goes into pretty deep detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F9qH-ea5Qk

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