nowfound

Dev tools · March 2, 2023

WebContainer API

Dev environments, in your web app

Visit site ↗Alternativestop 24% of March 2023

What it does

From interactive tutorials to full-blown IDEs, build instant, interactive coding experiences backed by WebContainers: the trusted, browser-based runtime from StackBlitz. Run Node.js in your browser with unmatched speed and no remote VMs involved.

Does the same job

all alternatives →
  • Node.JS in the Browser – An Open-source Alternative to WebContainersAug 2026 · developer.puter.com · ▲6

    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…

  • Serverless Cloud2022 · ▲283

    Build full stack apps better and faster than everyone else

  • CW
    Crawlee – Web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js2022 · crawlee.dev · ▲282

    Hey HN, This is Jan, founder of Apify, a web scraping and automation platform. Drawing on our team's years of experience, today we're launching Crawlee [1], the web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js that's designed for the fastest development and maximum reliability in production. For details, see the short video [2] or read the announcement blog post [3]. Main features: - Supports headless browsers with Playwright or Puppeteer - Supports raw HTTP crawling with Cheerio or JSDOM - Automated parallelization and scaling of crawlers for best performance - Avoids blocking using…

  • WebComponents.dev2020 · ▲101

    The modern IDE for web platform developers

  • CA
  • KeystoneMar 2026 · ▲125

    Teach your repo how to run itself

More dev tools this month

the category →
  • Dograh592

    The open source VAPI alternative

    Dev tools · 25d ago · dograh.com

  • Meridian530

    Don't let your work go unnoticed. Get promoted!

    Dev tools · 20d ago · meridiona.com

  • x1516

    Lovable for iPhone apps go from idea to App Store

    Dev tools · 11d ago · x1.new

  • Open-source GTM skills for technical founders

    Dev tools · 29d ago · gtmcofounder.com

  • Nuphos380

    The AI-Native DevOps Workspace.

    Dev tools · 24d ago · nuphos.ai

  • OpenTrailPaper is open-source bike computer firmware for the LilyGO T5S3 4.7" E-Paper PRO. It supports offline maps, GPX routes, FIT recording and Bluetooth sensors.

    Dev tools · 1d ago · opentrailpaper.com

Launched alongside, March 2023

the whole month →
  • GPT-41,161

    LLM that exhibits human-level performance

    AI · 2023 · openai.com

  • Collato972

    One AI search to find anything instantly, across all apps

    AI · 2023

  • A better UI for ChatGPT

    AI · 2023 · typingmind.com

  • Meet the internet again

    Work · 2023 · apps.apple.com

  • Sequoia726

    Anonymous sexual health app for men

    Life & fun · 2023 · sequoia.health

  • BI

    I'm a big fan of the BBC podcast In Our Time -- and (like most people) I've been playing with the OpenAI APIs. In Our Time has almost 1,000 episodes on everything from Cleopatra to the evolution of teeth to plasma physics, all still available, so it's my starting point to learn about most topics. But it's not well organised. So here are the episodes sorted by library code. It's fun to explore. Web scraping is usually pretty tedious, but I found that I could send the minimised HTML to GPT-3 and get (almost) perfect JSON back: the prompt includes the Typescript definition. At the same time I…

    AI · 2023 · genmon.github.io