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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Web Containers, StackBlitz, and Node.js in the Browser with Tomek Sulkowski

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk with Tomek Sulkowski about web containers, StackBlitz and more! Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax and put SYNTAX in the “How did you hear about us?” section. LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Linode - Sponsor Whether you’re working on a personal project or managing enterprise infrastructure, you deserve simple, affordable, and accessible cloud computing solutions that allow you to take your project to the next level. Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and easier. Get started on Linode today with a $100 in free credit for listeners of Syntax. You can find all the details at linode.com/syntax. Linode has 11 global data centers and provides 24/7/365 human support with no tiers or hand-offs regardless of your plan size. In addition to shared and dedicated compute instances, you can use your $100 in credit on S3-compatible object storage, Managed Kubernetes, and more. Visit linode.com/syntax and click on the “Create Free Account” button to get started. Guests Tomek Sulkowski Show Notes 02:45 - What is StackBlitz? 05:28 - What makes it different? 08:20 - How does offline work? 12:18 - What are web containers? How does this fit in? 17:45 - How does this all work (WASM, Node.js in the browser, etc.)? 21:00 - What does performance look like? 31:06 - What about VS Code extensions? 32:48 - Monorepos? 35:12 - Databases? Sqlite? 35:36 - Are there any limitations? 37:02 - What is Turbo? 40:58 - How is this different from similar apps? Links https://stackblitz.com/ https://jsbin.com/?html,output https://jsfiddle.net/ https://codepen.io/ https://code.visualstudio.com/ Fugu API Tracker (fugu-tracker.web.app) https://www.docker.com/ https://spidermonkey.dev/ https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore https://sli.dev/ https://vscode.dev/ https://codesandbox.io/ https://www.gitpod.io/ ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: HaloLock Universal Ring Wes: Car LED Light Upgrade Tomek: The Dresden Files Shameless Plugs Scott: Astro Course - Sign up for the year and save 25%! Wes: All Courses - Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for $10 off! Tomek StackBlitz Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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0:00.0

You're listening to syntax the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there strap yourself in and get ready

0:07.7

Here is Scott Tillinsky and West boss. Welcome to syntax. This is the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there

0:15.6

Today we've got an exciting episode and a guess we haven't had a guest on in a long time

0:20.6

We have Tomek on here today or I but your does name already Tomek on to talk to us about a couple things at least

0:28.2

I know maybe we'll go somewhere else with it, but specifically web containers

0:32.1

I saw this pop up a couple of months ago is running node in the browser

0:35.9

Which seems really interesting to me as well as he's working on this thing called stack blitz which let's you run an IDE in the browser

0:43.1

So lots to talk about today on that we are sponsored by three awesome companies first one is fresh books cloud accounting

0:50.2

second one is log rocket java script session replay and third one is Lynn node Linux servers and

0:57.9

Cloud hosting at your disposal. We'll talk about all them partway through the episode with me today is Scott Tillinsky as always and

1:07.2

Tomek, how do you say your last name?

1:09.2

Sukovsky

1:11.4

There you go. I would I would have got that

1:13.4

How you doing? Thanks for coming on. Yeah, I'm great. Thanks for having me. I've been a huge fan for like seems like forever

1:20.7

Oh, yeah, that's good. I'm glad to hear that. I think that we got somebody from stack blitz

1:26.9

Asked to come on the show a couple months ago and whenever people asked to come on a show

1:32.3

We're usually lucky. I probably not but then this just kept popping up and I was like, yeah, that sounds really interesting the tech behind it

1:39.9

You know, so I thought it'd be pretty fun to have you on and ask a bunch of questions

1:44.2

So do you want to give us a little intro of who you are where you're from what you do all those things?

1:49.8

Yeah, sure, so

1:51.5

Generally you started probably hearing about stack blitz around May this year, at least more about stack blitz this year because

1:59.5

We've interest pretty exciting new thing this couple of months ago, but let me rewind so I don't stack blitz about like

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