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Things you might have missed if you’ve been in React world for a while | Aug 2023

Sorry friend, WordPress already beat you to it: https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-playground

Things you might have missed if you’ve been in React world for a while | Aug 2023

Ah but that's not what I am referring to. If you take a look at Vercel Postgres page [^0], you will see that Vercel is marketing a new way of writing server side rendered code, where you can write SQL code right next to the HTML-ish code for the frontend. So I'm just merely making a (meant to be humorous) comparison with PHP.

> PHP can't run in the browser.

Well actually, WordPress did it [^1] [^2]. They compiled PHP to WASM, so you can run our favorite web framework in your own browser.

I see your point anyway. Systems evolve. Tooling has to follow suit. PHP cannot achieve some of the feat today mega stack can. The problem arises when we apply the latest bleeding edge technology meant for systems that have to serve millions into our little MVP that may have less than 1000 users in your first few years.

[0]: https://vercel.com/storage/postgres [1]: https://developer.wordpress.org/playground/ [2]: https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-playground

Announcing WCGI: WebAssembly and CGI | Apr 2023

Note WordPress has an official WebAssembly build for the browser and Node.js: https://developer.wordpress.org/playground https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-playground

Disclosure: I'm the creator

This project is different in that it builds PHP to WASI.

WordPress testing official SQLite Support | Dec 2022

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I love the work going on there at WasmLabs, especially enjoying the articles with in-depth technical explorations.

After the article about running WordPress in the browser was published, there's a new project called WordPress Playground which is gradually preparing NPM or Composer packages to make it easier for people to run it.

https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-playground/

They've been doing very detailed work, like making some patches to PHP and SQLite for improved compatibility with Emscripten, etc. It seems there's a lot of overlap with what WasmLabs has achieved and probably have continued to develop further. Perhaps there's an opportunity for collaboration.