In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk with Tomek Sulkowski about web containers, StackBlitz and more!
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02:45 - What is StackBlitz?
05:28 - What makes it different?
08:20 - How does offline work?
12:18 - What are web containers? How does this fit in?
17:45 - How does this all work (WASM, Node.js in the browser, etc.)?
21:00 - What does performance look like?
31:06 - What about VS Code extensions?
32:48 - Monorepos?
35:12 - Databases? Sqlite?
35:36 - Are there any limitations?
37:02 - What is Turbo?
40:58 - How is this different from similar apps?
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