Eric Simons - StackBlitz

This week we're joined by Eric Simons, CEO of StackBlitz. StackBlitz is an online IDE for web applications, powered by a new web standard called WebContainers. Web container allow you to run code much closer to the OS, and StackBlitz uses this to run NodeJS and NPM in the browser. We also talk about Eric's time living in AOL's headquarters, and how that led eventually to the creation of StackBlitz.
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00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:44 Guest Introduction and Background
00:02:13 Ad
00:03:27 The AOL Story: Living in AOL's Headquarters
00:10:49 Journey from K-12 Education Software to Developer Tools
00:18:38 The Evolution of StackBlitz and Web Containers
00:29:28 The Magic of WebContainer
00:42:41 StackBlitz Success and Adoption
00:46:14 The Future of WebAssembly and the Web
00:51:43 The Future of StackBlitz
00:54:10 Spicy Dev Take
00:57:42 Tooltips

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58:55 "it's call html-bundler-webpack-plugin, it's a terrible name...".
Yes, I agree, but what name did you recommend?
I call it "HTML Bundler Plugin for Webpack".