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Re:Show HN: Chunk – Code sandbox for back-end devs on Saturday July 30, 2022 @01:09PM (#32288390)
If we were to support more runtimes, I think I'd go for Firecracker (https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/) which is what AWS uses for lambdas
Re:Show HN: Chunk – Code sandbox for back-end devs on Saturday July 30, 2022 @01:07PM (#32288368)
Saw your message, thanks again for the heads up!
Re:Show HN: Chunk – Code sandbox for back-end devs on Saturday July 30, 2022 @01:06PM (#32288363)
There is currently no way to access the HTTP request query params and headers, but we could add it (probably as part of the context obj).

What is your use-case if you don't mind me asking?

Re:Show HN: Chunk – Code sandbox for back-end devs on Saturday July 30, 2022 @12:17PM (#32287934)
The fix should be up now.
Re:Show HN: Chunk – Code sandbox for back-end devs on Saturday July 30, 2022 @12:13PM (#32287905)
Good catch! Thanks for the heads up, I will get right on it!
Re:Show HN: Chunk – Code sandbox for back-end devs on Friday July 29, 2022 @08:14PM (#32283120)
Thanks! I really like your client side SDK approach, giving users the ability to use their own IDE / tools is always a plus. (+ building a web IDE is a pain haha)
Re:Show HN: Chunk – Code sandbox for back-end devs on Friday July 29, 2022 @08:08PM (#32283080)
Thanks for sharing!

The no-code approach taken by these automation apps (Make, Zapier..) makes them super accessible, but i agree, when any kind of business logic is involved nothing beats a few lines of code.

You could setup a Chunk as only one "step" of a Make/Zapier workflow. Giving you code-control only where you need it.

We could probably make that even easier by building integration for Make and Zapier.

Re:Show HN: Chunk – Code sandbox for back-end devs on Friday July 29, 2022 @07:39PM (#32282917)
not a trivial concept*
Re:Show HN: Chunk – Code sandbox for back-end devs on Friday July 29, 2022 @07:26PM (#32282839)
Cool! What would be your usages if you don't mind sharing?

First time hearing about nbb, its cool, I will definitely look into it

Re:Show HN: Chunk – Code sandbox for back-end devs on Friday July 29, 2022 @05:45PM (#32282127)
Ah! Thanks for the heads up!
Re:Show HN: Chunk – Code sandbox for back-end devs on Friday July 29, 2022 @05:26PM (#32281959)
Glitch is definitely the closest in terms of usage. We in fact used Glitch ourselves quite a lot. But even running the simplest piece of code on Glitch still requires you to write all the boilerplate code (e.g. setting up a node express HTTP server).

And of course, Glitch stops every instances after 5min of inactivity and it takes a solid 30sec to wake them up after.

Glitch is unbeatable in the frontend part. But we want to make the backend dev experience more seamless.

Re:Show HN: Chunk – Code sandbox for back-end devs on Friday July 29, 2022 @05:20PM (#32281908)
Good question! We use the Deno (https://deno.land) runtime which comes with built it permissions mgmt
Re:Show HN: Chunk – Code sandbox for back-end devs on Friday July 29, 2022 @05:19PM (#32281894)
Ngrok and reverse proxies in general are an option. But it's a trivial concept, and you'd still need to run your machine 24/7

Show HN: Chunk – Code sandbox for back-end devs

https://chunk.run

Chunk co-founder here. We spent the last 2 weeks building this to scratch our own itch:As developers, we often have problems that could be solved just by running a few lines of code. Sometimes, running this code on your local machine is fine. But other time, the code need to run automatically reacting to external events or to run continuously, which means, it needs to run on a server...

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Re:Codesandbox for Back End Devs on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @07:57AM (#32249395)
Write code, get a deployed URL.