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type: podcast
authors:
  - alex-patterson
episode: 40
guests:
  - tomek-sulkowski
recording_date: September 2, 2021 9:00 AM
season: 1
published: published
podcast: CodingCat.dev
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cover: https://media.codingcat.dev/image/upload/main-codingcatdev-photo/ome6ihlaksocf2rtzfhe.png
devto: https://dev.to/codingcatdev/140-creating-code-in-your-browser-with-stackblitz-33pb
excerpt: We sit down with Tomek Sulkowski to talk about how he started as an original engineer for StackBlitz. We also talk about Web Containers and how StackBlitz is leveraging them to program on the web.
hashnode: https://hashnode.codingcat.dev/podcast-1-40-creating-code-in-your-browser-with-stackblitz
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      author: 'alex-patterson',
      name: 'Vercel SWR (Stale While Revalidate)',
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      author: 'tomek-sulkowski',
      name: 'The Dresden Files',
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spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2zY41N3heUI9086felbr9w?si=c9pH-CffT76a68uMg5jFLQ
start: October 13, 2021
title: Creating Code in Your Browser with StackBlitz
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpoFnTSR2-Y
---

## Questions

1. How did you get started working on StackBlitz?
2. The first that I heard of StackBlitz was in an Angular podcast around 2017, when did you get started with it?
   1. [https://stackblitz.com/](https://stackblitz.com/)
3. What are Web Containers?
   1. Why do they build faster than say npm?
4. How does StackBlitz compare to something like [CodeSandbox](https://codesandbox.io/)?
5. Is there any security risks in running your entire codebase in the browser?
6. What limitations might there be?
