CodeSandbox Blog

Developing CodeSandbox Projects - AMA Recap

Filipe Lima

Get a unique view into CodeSandbox Projects from the team that is actively developing it.

How to get started with Hacktoberfest

Adewale Abati

Learn about Hacktoberfest and contributing to open source - including how CodeSandbox makes this much easier.

How we clone a running VM in 2 seconds

Ives van Hoorne

Or... how to clone a running Minecraft server

CodeSandbox Projects Goes into Open Beta

Ives van Hoorne

4 months ago, we announced the closed beta of CodeSandbox Projects, it’s an instant development environment that lets you start building projects of any size in seconds, fully integrated with your own existing tooling - including Visual Studio Code.

Sandpack v1: a fresh design and a new accessible API

Danilo Woznica

Today, we are proud to announce the first major release of Sandpack v1 - A toolkit for creating in-browser live coding.

Enabling communities to learn with CodeSandbox and IngressiveForGood

Adewale Abati

CodeSandbox in collaboration with Ingressive4Good supporting developers in communities to build and learn new skills.

Build fun web animations and win prizes - CodeSandbox Challenges

Adewale Abati

Participate in the CodeSandbox / GSAP web animation challenges and win fantastic prizes.

The iOS Release You Have Been Waiting For

Necoline Hubner

CodeSandbox for iOS lets you take your projects and sandboxes with you wherever you go. Using an iPhone or iPad, you can now access our new cloud development platform in the comfort of a native iOS IDE..

Announcing CodeSandbox Projects

Ives van Hoorne

We're super excited to announce CodeSandbox Projects, a rewrite of CodeSandbox from the ground up.

AMA with the Sandpack team Recap

Adewale Abati

In this blog post, we feature a recap of the session, as well as questions from the community and answers from the team.

Interactive code snippets with Sandpack - a showcase.

Adewale Abati

Check out some of the amazing ways people have been using Sandpack to improve the experience of code on the web.

CodeSandbox acquihires Anyfiddle creator Joji Augustine.

Ives van Hoorne

Joji has worked for the past few years on Anyfiddle, an online playground for any language. He built this completely on his own and has a ton of experience when it comes to building and scaling development containers that run in the cloud. This is why he is a great addition to the team; he’ll help us scale our infrastructure and make the experience of CodeSandbox faster and faster!

Introducing Sandpack

Ives van Hoorne

Introducing Sandpack A Toolkit for Creating In-Browser Live Coding

Fishing phishers

Andras Bacsai

Fighting against scams and phishing sites is always a never-ending game...

Introducing play.js Live

Ives van Hoorne

Today, we're happy to announce play.js Live. From today, you can edit sandboxes directly from play.js, while real-time collaborating with anyone from CodeSandbox.

Discover Announcement

Ives van Hoorne

We're happy to announce Discover, the place where we highlight great and inspiring sandboxes!

Announcing CodeSandbox has Acquired Play.js, a Native JavaScript IDE for iOS

Ives van Hoorne

We're super excited to announce that CodeSandbox has acquired play.js! On top of that, we're making play.js free and integrated with CodeSandbox. This is our first step to mobile-first development.

How to Maintain Your Skills as a Developer

Ceora Ford

Tech is always changing and new languages and frameworks are always emerging. Here are 4 tips for staying sharp and keeping up with industry changes.

How to Make Your First Open Source Contribution

Ceora Ford

Getting start with open source can seem very intimidating. But there are so many benefits to becoming an open source contributor. Read on to learn how you can make your first open source contribution.

This Month on CodeSandbox - April 2021 Edition

Ceora Ford

Learn about what the CodeSandbox community has been up to this month.

Why Community is Important for Developers

Ceora Ford

Community can be a huge catalyst for growth as a developer. Read on to explore why community is so important and where can you find said helpful developer communities.

User Feedback- the Key to Building Better Products

Ceora Ford

User feedback was crucial to the growth and development of Netlify. Learn what valuable user feedback is, where you can find it, and how you can use it to create successful developer tools like Netlify.

A Beginner's Guide to Project Building

Ceora Ford

Project building is an integral part of developer growth. Learn how to create and finish amazing coding projects in this post.

Announcing Team Pro - Build Faster and Use CodeSandbox With Your Team

Ives van Hoorne

Purpose-built for product teams of all sizes to prototype rapidly, share knowledge, and get better feedback so you can all build faster, together.

Showcase Your Sandboxes with All New Profile Pages

Ives van Hoorne

Let folks know a little bit about yourself and your creations with our new look profile pages.

Fusing Open Source and Work with Paul Henschel

Siddharth Kshetrapal

Coders and creators of all kinds use CodeSandbox to prototype and share their ideas. This creator profile showcases the sandboxes of web animation pioneer Paul Henschel and we chat about the symbiotic relationship he's forged between his open-source contributions and professional work.

Curiosity-driven Development with Charlie Gerard

Siddharth Kshetrapal

Coders and creators of all kinds use CodeSandbox to prototype and share their ideas. This creator profile showcases the sandboxes of creative technologist Charlie Gerard and we chat to her about how she harnesses her curiosity to inspire and drive her creative experiments.

Bridging the Gap Between Design and Code with Segun Adebayo

Siddharth Kshetrapal

Coders and creators of all kinds use CodeSandbox to prototype and share their ideas. This creator profile showcases the sandboxes of Design Systems expert and Entrepreneur Segun Adebayo. We chat to him about how he turned a problem into a way to break down barriers between designers and developers.

CodeSandbox Secures $12.7M Series A Funding

Ives van Hoorne

We're thrilled to announce we've raised a new round of $12.7 million Series A funding led by EQT Ventures to continue building the future of coding on the web.

Introducing Teams

Ives van Hoorne

A new dashboard that's built for collaboration.

A Better GitHub Workflow

Ives van Hoorne

We've made it even easier for you to work with GitHub projects on CodeSandbox.

Redefining Code Collaboration

Ives van Hoorne

A big update to CodeSandbox Live — Live by default, new access controls, presence, and follower mode.

A Snappier, New Look Editor

Ives van Hoorne

We've evolved the design of the editor to get to you to your code faster. While loading and forking take a fraction of the time.

Say Hello to Template Universe and Goodbye to Project Setup

Ives van Hoorne

Template Universe enables you to share and use templates created by the community and makes it possible for the maintainers of frameworks and libraries to add official ones too.

Announcing CodeSandbox CI and all-new Embeds

Ives van Hoorne

Today we're pleased to launch CodeSandbox CI - A free continuous integration service purpose-built for open source library maintainers, along with a new look for embeds.

CodeSadbox - Introducing improved Crash Reporting!

Drake Costa

In this week's release we've got the best new feature we hope you never have to use! But that's not all, we've got some other goodies to share too!

Announcing CodeSandbox Custom Templates

Drake Costa

Today we're excited to launch a new feature that we believe will speed up your prototyping workflow here in CodeSandbox! Say hello to Templates!

CodeSandbox Raises $2.4M Seed Round led by Kleiner Perkins

Ives van Hoorne

We're super excited to share that we've raised a seed round from Kleiner Perkins, Arches Capital, and the founders of Figma, Framer, Netlify, Vercel, Sourcegraph and Catawiki!

CodeSandbox Containers out of Beta & Improvements

Ives van Hoorne

CodeSandbox Containers are now out of beta with a faster infrastructure and raised limits!

Announcing CodeSandbox v3

Ives van Hoorne

Including VS Code Extensions, a new editor redesign and devtool panes!

Improving the CodeSandbox Community

Ives van Hoorne

It's time for a new update to CodeSandbox! This time we focused on the most important part of CodeSandbox: the community.

What's Unique About CodeSandbox

Ives van Hoorne

I often get asked: "What's the difference between CodeSandbox and <another online editor>". This is a list of unique features that it has.

Announcing CodeSandbox Containers

Ives van Hoorne

It's possible to create any JavaScript project now on CodeSandbox!

Introducing Themes

Ives van Hoorne

Start using any VS Code theme directly in CodeSandbox

Announcing CodeSandbox Dashboard & Teams

Ives van Hoorne

Announcing a new dashboard, team functionality and free CodeSandbox Live!

Introducing CodeSandbox Live — real time code collaboration in the browser

Ives van Hoorne

CodeSandbox Live allows you to open up your sandboxes for live collaboration with others.

Introducing the Vanilla Template to CodeSandbox

Ives van Hoorne

CodeSandbox got support for the Vanilla template, based on the Parcel bundler.

How CodeSandbox uses Puppeteer & Jest to test sandbox functionality

Ives van Hoorne

CodeSandbox uses Puppeteer extensively, in this post we will explain how we use Jest & Puppeteer to test user written code.

Announcing CodeSandbox 2.5

Ives van Hoorne

Announcing: Angular Support, Jest Integration, New Streamlined Editor, State Management Rewrite, Babel Plugin Support and much more!

Announcing CodeSandbox 2.0

Ives van Hoorne

Git committing, a new homepage, static file hosting and more

How we make npm packages work in the browser

Ives van Hoorne

We upgraded our npm support to be 99.98% cheaper and 2,000% faster using serverless.

Creating a parallel, offline, extensible, browser based bundler for CodeSandbox

Ives van Hoorne

Finding the right balance between the look and feel of Webpack, and using browser based technologies.

CodeSandbox 1.5 Changelog

Ives van Hoorne

CodeSandbox 1.5 has landed, with monaco-editor, offline support, new error reporting and much more!

Introducing CodeSandbox Search, Patron & much more!

Ives van Hoorne

Introducing the new features built in July. Includes Sandbox Tagging, Search, CodeSandbox Patron, dedicated preferences, private sandboxes, ...

The Future of CodeSandbox

Ives van Hoorne

Explaining the new focus of CodeSandbox and how we're going to achieve this.

CodeSandbox — An online React editor 🏖

Ives van Hoorne