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StackBlitz Blog is the company blog at blog.stackblitz.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2021, 37 different Hacker News readers have linked it 49 times, most often “WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in the browser”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-06-04, and you can follow it by feed.
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Most-linked posts?
- WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in the browser16 people · 19 mentions · first linked 2021-05-20
- WebContainers can now run Node.js in Safari / iOS / iPadOS6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2023-04-27
- What design systems teams can learn from open-source maintainers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-10-24
- WebContainers are now supported in Firefox on desktop and Android2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-06-07
- WebContainer API released for public use2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-14
What Hacker News says?
Stackblitz Webcontainers[0] look promising too. I read the creators plan on open-sourcing the underlying tech once more mature. 0. https://blog.stackblitz.com/posts/introducing-webcontainers/
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on “GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces”Submitted WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in the browser as a story · 387 points
HN discussionThis is also sandboxed FWIW. It means users could write plugins in Python and have them run securely, much like browsers running JavaScript, and games that have Lua scripting. https://webassembly.org/docs/security/ https://www.reddit.com/r/WebAssembly/comments/ryz2zz/are_was... Deno also touts its permission system. It will be interesting to see if both get interesting use. micropip is impressive. A lot of JavaScrip…
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on “Introducing PyScript (summary of PyCon keynote)”Submitted Fragmented thinking is a bigger threat to flow state than interruptions as a story · 386 points
HN discussionStackblitz | Full-time | REMOTE, US, EU timezones | https://stackblitz.com/careers We're building the fastest, most secure IDE on the planet! We recently announced WebContainer ( https://blog.stackblitz.com/posts/introducing-webcontainers/ ), an in-browser Node.js runtime that allows front-end developers to use the web to build the web. We have a very ambitious roadmap and we're looking to hire multiple positions. *…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021)”Submitted WebContainers are now supported in Firefox on desktop and Android as a story · 173 points
HN discussionIf you want Node in your browser, stackblitz has a super fast implementation. I think it's NodeJS compiled to Wasm but with V8 replaced by browser's native JS engine: https://blog.stackblitz.com/posts/introducing-webcontainers/
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on “WebVM: Server-less x86 virtual machines in the browser”Submitted Shopify partners with StackBlitz to bring Hydrogen development in-browser as a story · 8 points
HN discussionNice! How does this compare to Web Containers ( https://blog.stackblitz.com/posts/introducing-webcontainers/ , proprietary to Stackblitz)?
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on “WebVM: Server-less x86 virtual machines in the browser”Submitted WebContainers can now run Node.js in Safari / iOS / iPadOS as a story · 7 points
HN discussionStackblitz | Full-time | REMOTE, US, EU timezones | https://stackblitz.com/careers We're building the fastest, most secure IDE on the planet! We recently announced WebContainers ( https://blog.stackblitz.com/posts/introducing-webcontainers/ ), an in-browser Node.js runtime that allows front-end developers to use the web to build the web. We have a very ambitious roadmap and we're looking to hire multiple positions.…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2021)”Submitted WebContainers are now supported in Firefox on desktop and Android as a story · 7 points
HN discussionStackblitz | Full-time | REMOTE, US, EU timezones | https://stackblitz.com/careers We're building the fastest, most secure IDE on the planet! We recently announced WebContainer ( https://blog.stackblitz.com/posts/introducing-webcontainers/ ), an in-browser Node.js runtime that allows front-end developers to _use_ the web to _build_ the web. We have a very ambitious roadmap and we'll be aggressively hiring in the upc…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2022)”Submitted WebContainers: Run Node.js in the Browser Natively as a story · 4 points
HN discussionStackblitz | Full-time | REMOTE, US, EU timezones | https://stackblitz.com/careers We're building the fastest, most secure IDE on the planet! We recently announced WebContainer ( https://blog.stackblitz.com/posts/introducing-webcontainers/ ), an in-browser Node.js runtime that allows front-end developers to use the web to build the web. We have a very ambitious roadmap and we're looking to hire multiple positions. *…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2021)”Submitted StackBlitz is joining the Open Source Pledge as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.stackblitz.com/posts/introducing-webcontainers/
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on “Xterm.js”Submitted Chasing Memory Bugs through V8 and WebAssembly as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWebContainers: https://blog.stackblitz.com/posts/introducing-webcontainers/
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on “Ask HN: Can you share websites that are pushing the utility of browsers forward?”Submitted Introducing: SQLite3 Support in WebContainers as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> or maybe a kubernetes that runs in the browser and the circle of ironic self referencing will be complete https://blog.stackblitz.com/posts/introducing-webcontainers/
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on “Web Applications from the Future: A Database in the Browser”Submitted Pkg.pr.new as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhi HN, there's a companion technical post by yours truly which might be more appropriate/technically dense for your taste: https://blog.stackblitz.com/posts/supporting-firefox/ (I'm also sad that Multi-Account Containers are not a thing in Firefox for Android). Disclaimer: I (obviously) work for StackBlitz.
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on “WebContainers are now supported in Firefox on desktop and Android”Submitted Unbundling the JavaScript Ecosystem as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYes, there's at least one option for that now! https://blog.stackblitz.com/posts/introducing-webcontainers/
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on “Gallium OS: a fast and lightweight Linux distro for ChromeOS devices”Submitted What Is Storybook? An Overview for Developers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis looks a LOT like StackBlitz WebContainers which were launched last month. https://blog.stackblitz.com/posts/introducing-webcontainers/ Is this using WebContainers? Or is it just very similar? The HN discussion about StackBlitz focused on the problem that it would only work in Chrome… I assume that's true here as well? (Due to lack of the File System Access API?) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27223012
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on “Next.js Live: Code in the Browser with ESM, ServiceWorkers, Replicache, and WASM”Submitted Bringing Sharp to WebAssembly and WebContainers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis is made by StackBlitz (not really, see reply to this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29812650 ) who make a Cloud IDE that runs in the browser instead of a server. As for the why of that see https://blog.stackblitz.com/posts/introducing-webcontainers/ "What about Code Spaces/Sandbox/Repls/...? Legacy online IDEs run your entire dev environment on a remote server and stream the results back across th…
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on “Browser-Vite – Vite in the Browser”Submitted WebContainers (Node.js) now run on Safari, iOS, and iPadOS as a story · 2 points
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