Hello everyone!
At StackBlitz, we have been working hard on the new tools that will premiere at ViteConf and that I believe will be truly game-changing for Open Source maintainers.
The release will happen before a significant crowd: at this moment, 21,000 devs registered to attend ViteConf! If you haven’t yet, click here to get your free ticket. Here's mine:
Meanwhile, we have been pushing updates and cheering for our community!
Today we are bringing you:
- StackBlitz in the wild: news from our community
- DX & Compatibility improvements: the change log
- New Teammates: our team has grown - do you wanna join, too?
- Quick bites for the road
I hope you’ll have a wonderful month!
StackBlitz in the wild
- Does running WordPress in the browser without a PHP server sound like fun? Here’s a delightful writeup on spinning it on StackBlitz thanks to WASM. We may soon be able to run an in-browser WordPress IDE - something to look forward to!
- Wanda has just released a beautiful Design System components playground powered by StackBlitz - have a look:
- tRPC, a library used for building fully typesafe APIs, added a StackBlitz demo on their homepage and we love to see it!
- Matt Pocock is soon releasing Total TypeScript, a comprehensive course on TypeScript, which uses StackBlitz to help users learn as they watch the videos without leaving the browser.
- Token CSS is a new tool that seamlessly integrates Design Tokens into your development workflow - you can launch a Token CSS demo with a single click!
- Josh Morony created a bash script to instantly launch a fresh Angular app for test code, which publishes the app on StackBlitz 🚀
- neodrag has just dropped. It is a lightweight plain JS library that makes your elements draggable. You can play with it in this demo.
- And finally, oh so many StackBlitz starters to choose from in the whyframe docs! whyframe is a library that “gives iframes superpowers, making it easy to render anything in isolation”.
DX & compatibility improvements
As we’re working on new tools, we are finishing the month with a whole plethora of improvements:
-
Bug fixes and improvements
- Updated our dashboard with new project starters: effector, NativeScript (mobile section), Quasar, Remotion, VuePress, VitePress.
- Our dashboard now features a description of each of the projects instead of the project slug.
- New repositories now have their name as a header in the README instead of the project slug.
- Introduced improvements to the Console components (for EngineBlock projects):
- Added support for
console.table
- Fixed the display of
NaN
,Infinity
and-Infinity
values - Improved the color contrast and readability of console log items.
- Improved the responsiveness of the Console when logging over hundreds of messages.
- Improved StackBlitz EngineBlock error messaging when a library referenced from the code has an entry point file that does not exist in the package.
- Fixed issue in the EngineBlock projects with importing
ace-builds
package due to the way that it handles AMD and the way that it specifies a webpack file-loader in itswebpack-loader.js
file. - The ace editor library entry point overrides the require function with its own custom logic (amd loader).
- Fixed a bug
Ctrl+S
/Cmd+S
not saving project if all tabs are closed. - Fixed an issue where a standalone preview tab would get stuck in the loading state if the StackBlitz project had some sort of error. These errors are now shown to the user.
- When reloading the page, now the previously displayed screen is copied and displayed for up to 3 seconds.
- Updated our icon set to use Microsoft’s Codeicons in more places.
- Fixed an issue with the dashboard's project list not showing the “Delete this project” menu entry.
- Now user can open the commit dialog in the auto commit mode by
alt
+click
on the commit button (GitHub Issue #2034 fix). - Clarified the UI shown when opening a binary file in the editor.
- Binaries are now preserved when you connect git repository to a project with binaries (Github Issue #787 fix).
- Fixed the storage quota exceeded error, by using
indexeddb
instead oflocalstorage
. - Clarified context for options in the user menu.
- Now user can use git integration with GitHub "Keep my email addresses private" setting on (GitHub Issue #1963 fix).
-
Blog
- Replaced the generic social image and added the new social image for category index pages.
- A specific title to each Category page, instead of showing generic
StackBlitz::Blog
title. - Implemented the new Netlify build image (the new Ubuntu 20.04 images).
-
Docs
- Created and added numerous demos, like for example this project that showcases all open file options.
- Updated the list of the custom project starters with these friends:
- analogjs.org/new
- ladle.dev/new
-
NativeScript:
- TypeScript: nativescript.new
- JavaScript: nativescript.new/javascript
- Angular: nativescript.new/angular
- Vue: nativescript.new/vue
- React: nativescript.new/react
- Svelte: nativescript.new/svelte
- node.new/nx
- qwik.new
- rakkasjs.org/new
- storybook.new
- vitepress.new
- Refreshed content across the docs platform.
New Teammates
Our team has grown! Please meet:
- Yuka Masuda, a front-end engineer, a community organizer, a talented knitter, an inspiring baker, and a loving human to a shiba inu 🐕
- Dave McChesney, an Enterprise Account Executive, a skilled archer, a true enthusiast of the outdoors, and a pet parent to two wonderful poodles 🐩
Are you looking for a ✨ nurturing ✨ team to join? We have roles open for software engineers (a senior Rails engineer and a senior TypeScript/Rust/Nodde.js engineer), as well as a Product Marketing Manager.
Here are three tweet threads on how it is to work with us:
Wanna learn more? Feel free to reach out!
Quick bites for the road
- Are you ready for ViteConf? Our team member, Patak, spoke recently to the Storyblok folks about some of the marvels awaiting you there!
- Here’s an article predicting a looming end of the localhost, inspired by Swyx’ blog post.
- Puru Vijay, our team member spoke recently at Svelte Summit on how to migrate React libraries to Svelte
- Do you already have a ticket for ViteConf? Just in case, it’s an online and free conference with an all-star speaker list celebrating the web ecosystem at large. Excited? See you on 11-12 October 2022!
What’s next?
We are so excited for what the nearest future will bring — we are cooking something really special for you! In the meantime, stay tuned on Twitter or join our Discord community.
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