Inside the Box

Welcome to "Inside the Box"!

You might wonder: what’s up with this newsletter?

With so much going on, we wanted a way to keep our community up to date on product announcements, community highlights, useful resources, and events.

So, we're kicking off a monthly email!

Welcome to issue #1. We're glad you're here for the journey.

Have you met Boxy? Now, you have a brand-new AI assistant in CodeSandbox! Ask Boxy to write, refactor and review code—it always has the full context of your project. Test our AI Playground here ✨

Running Anything on CodeSandbox — Recently, we released a major update: Docker support. This is a game-changer! Long gone are the days when we only ran JavaScript. Today, CodeSandbox runs anything 🔥

Changelog — We were pretty busy shippin' in the first half of 2023! Check the latest changelog for a rundown of what's new.

Render ATL — Earlier this month, our Co-Founder Ives was in Atlanta sharing “The Technical Story & Learnings of CodeSandbox”. Seems like folks really enjoyed the demo of a Minecraft server running in CodeSandbox!

DevTalks Bucharest — Our Engineering Manager Ioana traveled to Bucharest, Romania, for the DevTalks Conference! She moderated the web stage, closed with a talk on the learnings from building our platform, and went on live TV 📺

JS Nation — At the beginning of June, Sandpack got nominated to the JavaScript OSS Awards. We are very proud and happy to see it thrive and get such major recognition from the community!

Panel on Code Reviews — Code reviews are a tricky topic to talk about. So we're doing exactly that, chatting with Engineering Managers about the main problems of code reviews and how to nail them. Save your seat! And bring popcorn 🍿

Our community members are building mind-blowing projects on CodeSandbox! Let's look at some cool examples and collaborations.

Liveblocks — We are proud to be part of the Liveblocks journey! Check how they are bringing the fun back to product discovery and learning by building an interactive playground with Sandpack.

Discover Page — Earlier this year, we released a page highlighting the best projects built by our community and some of our brand-new project starters like Next.js Commerce. Doesn't it look stunning? 😍

Finally, here are some hot news bytes picked by our team!

AI Coding Tools — Gergely Orosz wrote about the explosion in the number of software engineers using AI coding tools. What's your take on this? Is AI part of your workflow, or are you just watching it with curiosity for now? Let us know on Twitter!

Rust in CodeSandbox — Earlier this year, we announced Rust support, one of the most loved programming languages. Give it a try 🦀

Building runtime-aware JavaScript packages — JK Namburu wrote about how to build JavaScript packages for multiple runtimes, for better compatibility.

We hope you enjoyed issue #1!

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After all, we created it for you.