Here is an ELI5 explanation of the Wasmer blog post announcing WinterJS:
WinterJS is a new way to run JavaScript Service Workers that Wasmer created. Service Workers are little programs that run in your web browser to make websites work better.
The normal way to run Service Workers is using Node.js. But Node.js can be slow and heavy.Wasmer made WinterJS using the Rust programming language. Rust makes it very fast!
WinterJS also uses the same JavaScript engine that Firefox uses, called SpiderMonkey. This makes it work the same way as a web browser.So WinterJS lets you run Service Workers in a fast and lightweight way, without needing Node.js. You can run it on your computer with a simple command.WinterJS is special because it can also be compiled to WebAssembly. This means it can run in Wasmer Edge or even directly in your web browser!
> The normal way to run Service Workers is using Node.js.
This is false, and is not claimed in the original post. Service Workers run in the browser, and Node.js is not compatible with the service worker API. By which I mean that in Node, one cannot write `self.addEventListener("fetch", event => ...)`
Here is an ELI5 explanation of the Wasmer blog post announcing WinterJS:
WinterJS is a new way to run JavaScript Service Workers that Wasmer created. Service Workers are little programs that run in your web browser to make websites work better.
The normal way to run Service Workers is using Node.js. But Node.js can be slow and heavy.Wasmer made WinterJS using the Rust programming language. Rust makes it very fast!
WinterJS also uses the same JavaScript engine that Firefox uses, called SpiderMonkey. This makes it work the same way as a web browser.So WinterJS lets you run Service Workers in a fast and lightweight way, without needing Node.js. You can run it on your computer with a simple command.WinterJS is special because it can also be compiled to WebAssembly. This means it can run in Wasmer Edge or even directly in your web browser!