WebContainer

Creator
Creator
Seonglae ChoSeonglae Cho
Created
Created
2021 May 21 15:37
Editor
Edited
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2026 Feb 9 17:4
Currently, WASM containers are limited in their capabilities beyond creating development environments with filesystems or supporting other languages, making it difficult to function like web workers
While future integration shows promise, the relatively modest performance improvements of WASM and the trend towards GPU utilization and web optimization raise some concerns
WebContainer Usages
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Introducing WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in your browser
Hi there! We're StackBlitz, an online IDE tailored specifically for web development. You might've seen a sneak peek of us during the Google I/O keynote this week. Today we're excited to announce a new technology we've been working on in concert with the teams at Next.js and Google.
Introducing WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in your browser
Exceeded
JVM
limitation about the browser
WASM will replace containers
WebAssembly is a true write-once-run-anywhere experience.
WASM will replace containers
 

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