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Products that do what Node.JS in the Browser – An Open-source Alternative to WebContainers does
This is a Node.js compatible runtime in the browser. It supports CLI apps, Vite, and some agents (like Pi Agent) as well. Some notes: - This runs all code in a web worker using the host javascript runtime with rewrites for module loading and AsyncLocalStorage support using Oxc compiled to WASM. - Most of the libraries are bundled straight from Node.js upstream with light overrides where needed, ensuring compatibility. Libraries were only reimplemented where really needed - Despite having great integrations with the Puter desktop and APIs, this can be used completely seperately with OPFS…
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We've rolled out a feature for openbase.com that we think is a DX game changer for Node devs. Since the emergence of ECMA Script modules, it's been a continuous guessing game as to what kind of exports a package has. That's never really been discoverable without using a site like unpkg, or installing the package and inspecting package.json. Openbase now displays the ES Module support level (e.g. type of exports) on all of their package pages. We added this feature because our devs are some of the folks continually caught off guard by installing an NPM dependency only to find out it's…
2022
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One of my previous side projects was to build a small web app meant to be run on enterprise Windows server environment. The type of place where software is still installed manually by clicking through an installer. I wanted the app to run as a Windows service, and to have a minimal .msi -installer, so that more or less anyone could install the software. Instead of being smart and writing the app in C# and get the full tooling of Microsoft... I choose to do a modern web app with Node.js and React. I thought, how hard can it be to package it into a Windows service? It turned out to be pretty…
2023 · github.com
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2014 · itunes.apple.com
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Hi HF, I'm Terrell, and we built an open-source app that lets developers create their own Operator with a Next.js/React front-end and a flask back-end. The purpose is to simplify spinning up virtual desktops (Xfce, VNC) and automate desktop-based interactions using computer use models like OpenAI’s There are already various cool tools out there that allow you to build your own operator-like experience but they usually only automate web browser actions, or aren’t open sourced/cost a lot to get started. Spongecake allows you to automate desktop-based interactions, and is fully open…
2025 · github.com
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I am super excited to open-source the code executor behind logicboard.com - an in-browser collaborative code editor. The backend is written in Elixir+Phoenix and implements a WebSocket API to execute code in docker containers. Next steps include making this more secure, I am considering Google's gVisor to implement better isolation between containers and the host kernel.
2023 · github.com
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Hi HN, Sid here. I made Browserable, an open-source and self-hostable JS library (MIT license) for building agents that can execute web tasks, track status and fetch results: https://github.com/browserable/browserable. It allows you to build agents that can navigate sites, fill out forms, and extract information. It is currently at 90.4% on the Web Voyager benchmark. With this library, you can: - Run a browser agent suite in your local machine with one command- npx browserable. - Integrate into existing code with REST APIs/ SDKs. - Self-host the browser agent and…
2025 · github.com
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2018 · github.com
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I was wondering... why do we need a Mac Mini, a VPS, or a Docker container to run OpenClaw? Your browser already has a secure sandboxed OS, a database, a filesystem, and a JS engine. What if we just... used those? So I built OpenBrowserClaw inspired by the simplicity of NanoClaw but running entirely in a browser tab. - Claude API with full tool-use loop - Shell commands in a v86-emulated Alpine Linux (yes, a Linux VM in WASM, in your browser) - File I/O via OPFS - Data persistence in the browser local storage - Telegram integration over plain HTTPS - Zero runtime dependencies No server.…
Feb 2026 · openbrowserclaw.com
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Hi! I am sharing this because it may be useful to others. I created a simple Docker image that lets you easily expose a web app running locally on your dev machine to the Internet, via a proxy server. It is a self hosted alternative to something like Ngrok, which is a paid service if you use custom domains. A small server is cheaper than Ngrok (I use Hetzner Cloud and the cheapest server costs me 3€ per month). I use this method in particular to test HTTP verification with Let's Encrypt for a SaaS app running on my Mac. Hope this is useful :) Code:…
2019
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I've been working in the couple of months on an experiment, trying to make GPT-4 much more useful for web development / React, writing production code that is relevant to any repository without copy pasta from ChatGPT or having small snippets of auto-complete from Copilot that are not in your context. The agent is taking a user story text and generating and composing multiple react components to generate the relevant screens, based on atomic design principles, with Typescript, TailwindCSS and RadixUI. Is is still experimental but very interesting results, I would like to get your…
2023 · github.com
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I built Cossistant as a lightweight, open-source alternative to Intercom/Zendesk for NextJS/React devs. You can embed it with a simple NPM command and under 10 lines of code. The goal was so far to be a very very good human to human support platform, the next goal is to enable AI agents to auto-handle 80% of queries (train on your docs and knowledge) and eventually escalate to humans when needed. Everything is customizable with Tailwind or your custom React components. Support tools are bloated, pricey and never FEEL / LOOK like your product, this is why it's being shipped as…
Nov 2025 · github.com
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Hey HN, wanted to share this cli and skill I built @ Steel (I'm the founder) I was trying to set up openclaw on railway and quickly bumped up against issues with a lack of browser access, a core component of the system. Agents like OpenClaw and CC are super good at using browsers but, similar to code sandboxes, they should be able to control these browser in the background, in parallel, without getting blocked by captchas. So I reworked agent-browser, the most popular cli for browser agents, to navigate Steel cloud browser sessions to they can run at scale and unhindered. It's a relatively…
Mar 2026 · twitter.com
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