WebContainers

lastmod 2021-06-11created 2021-05-242 edits

Run Node.js in the browser

Features

• Runs a full-stack Node.js environment in the browser with WASM
  • VS Code / a full terminal / NPM, etc. run in the browser
  • Secure, since all code runs inside the browser
  • Builds are 20% faster, and package installs are more than 5x faster than yarn/npm
  • Integrates with Chrome DevTools to debug Node.js backends running in the browser
• The public beta supports Next.js, GraphQL, and vanilla Node.js (more frameworks planned)

See also

• Node
• WebAssembly (WASM)

Favorite site

• Introducing WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in your browser