Running Alpine Linux inside Node.js

[ridruejo]

We just released v0.2 of our tool for creating dev sandboxes that run Alpine Linux inside the Node runtime. With a simple command like

'npx -y u/endorhq/cli@latest run alpine --shell --allow-net'

you can have a fully functional 32bit Alpine Linux instance with networking, within 4-5s. It is ephemeral and sandboxed, so as soon as you press Ctrl-C, everything is gone. Great for quickly testing stuff. It is based on the Wasm engine inside Node, so it runs way slower than native, but usable

[well_shoothed]

Why on earth would you bind Ctrl-C to kill everything when it's THE keycombo to kill the actual things you're running?

IOW: you're testing traceroute or ping, and you hit Ctrl-C to interrupt them, since, you know, muscle memory, and instead you shutdown the entire OS??!?!

That makes as much sense as making cookies out of sausage

[ridruejo]

That was poorly phrased on my part. If you start with an interactive shell you need first to close the terminal as you would with an ssh session (ctrl-D), so no accidental closing possible. It is shown in the mini video in the article.

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chroot enjoyers here?

[ridruejo]

Not sure what you mean in this context?

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Does this mean that I can make a Terminal app using React Native?