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by lioeters 1065 days ago
I'm curious about the technical details. Could you elaborate on how CodeSandbox runs Node.js in the browser? Does it use a Linux VM like Alpine compiled to WASM?
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Oh I think I found the answer.

> Nodebox is a runtime for executing Node.js modules in the browser.

https://github.com/codesandbox/nodebox-runtime

https://sandpack.codesandbox.io/docs/advanced-usage/nodebox