top | item 46555653 (no title) tennex | 1 month ago JS/TS interop, sure--but what are the use cases for running a JS runtime inside WASM? discuss order hn newest potsandpans|1 month ago Iirc, Shopify uses this to execute storefront code on the edge in a sandboxed environment.People who want to write JavaScript for backend store functionality can, and then Shopify deploys that code into containers with small IO semantics drysart|1 month ago I believe Shopify looked into using a JS engine in WASM for front end sandboxing but ended up using a wrapper around the Shadow Realms API instead. load replies (1)
potsandpans|1 month ago Iirc, Shopify uses this to execute storefront code on the edge in a sandboxed environment.People who want to write JavaScript for backend store functionality can, and then Shopify deploys that code into containers with small IO semantics drysart|1 month ago I believe Shopify looked into using a JS engine in WASM for front end sandboxing but ended up using a wrapper around the Shadow Realms API instead. load replies (1)
drysart|1 month ago I believe Shopify looked into using a JS engine in WASM for front end sandboxing but ended up using a wrapper around the Shadow Realms API instead. load replies (1)
potsandpans|1 month ago
People who want to write JavaScript for backend store functionality can, and then Shopify deploys that code into containers with small IO semantics
drysart|1 month ago