WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in the browser

Re:WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in t... by toddmorey on Friday July 14, 2023 @02:10PM (#36727751)

"Whether you want to build a note-taking application for mobile devices, an automated testing environment, or demo a live WooCommerce store on your site – Playground will support you."

The last two make a ton of sense, but the idea of building a mobile app that's powered by Wordpress running PHP in webassembly in the browser is wrecking my brain.

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Re:WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in t... by coliveira on Friday July 14, 2023 @03:17PM (#36728644)

It makes complete sense. Php web stack is very light compared to Python/node, so it makes sense it can be embedded in the browser.

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Re:WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in t... by SahAssar on Friday July 14, 2023 @04:33PM (#36729522)

Except this is already running on a js environment in the browser (usually v8 if you use chrome, edge or any of their derivatives, the engine behind node). So you are running something to not run the thing you are already running.

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Re:WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in t... by WorldMaker on Friday July 14, 2023 @04:52PM (#36729778)

There are plenty of Python apps now running in WebAssembly too. A lot of Node's stack directly runs in browsers (browserify is "ancient" tech at this point and influenced so much of modern "bundling" including Webpack and many things post-Webpack). (Deno's doing its own work with browser-compatible Node APIs, too.)

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Re:WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in t... by gnz11 on Saturday July 15, 2023 @06:44AM (#36735397)

The part that doesn’t make sense is using Wordpress as an application framework.

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Re:WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in t... by bunga-bunga on Friday July 14, 2023 @05:18PM (#36730076)

Finally some RAM competition to Electron apps!

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Re:WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in t... by lvncelot on Saturday July 15, 2023 @01:53AM (#36733982)

We need an LLM layer for this to truly be web-scale.

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Re:WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in t... by photomatt on Saturday July 15, 2023 @05:09AM (#36734981)

The notes app is a real thing! https://wptavern.com/blocknotes-app-runs-wordpress-natively-...

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Re:WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in t... by mst on Saturday July 15, 2023 @06:47AM (#36735411)

This is ridiculous and also somehow wonderful and I mean that entirely positively.

My compliments to everybody involved.

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