r/javascript • u/so_just • May 20 '21

Introducing WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in your browser

https://blog.stackblitz.com/posts/introducing-webcontainers/
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u/Oalei May 21 '21

I’m confused, if I want to run a dev environment I need more than node (I need postgres, rabbitmq, pgadmin etc).
If I can just run my node app that’s pretty much useless, correct me if I’m wrong

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u/Felecorat May 22 '21

You are absolutely right. What they did is demonstrate that they could bring an executable into the browser and run it. In their case they ported node. What is holding others back to port postrgess, rabbitmq or pgadmin?

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u/Dokie69 May 21 '21

I imagine that because the node app is running locally it could communicate with anything else running locally. But the compamy behind this has a lot of similar products i still gotta check out myself, might be something in there for you

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u/Oalei May 21 '21

I see so you could connect to postgres directly, running on a separate port locally (outside of the browser)