Mon, Jul 4, 2022Improving Domain Linking for Repls
For some time now, it's been possible to link your custom domain to your Repl. You buy that perfect domain name, connect...
Sun, Apr 17, 2022QLTY SZN 1
A commitment to quality One of our competitive advantages is making bets on technologies before the rest of the market ...
Wed, Mar 30, 2022We Built a Search Engine
For the past few months, we have been building a Replit-native search engine. It is remarkably powerful, and we are real...
Wed, Mar 16, 2022Escaping Dirty Pipe (a.k.a. CVE-2022-0847), mostly unscathed
You may have heard that there was a very critical Linux kernel vulnerability making the rounds. As with all important en...
Wed, Mar 9, 2022Betting on CodeMirror
At Replit, our mission is to bring the next billion software creators online. In order to achieve that ambitious goal, w...
Wed, Feb 23, 2022All New Repls are Powered By Nix
For the past year we have been working hard to integrate Nix into our platform and rebuild our existing language experie...
Fri, Feb 11, 2022Announcing File Persistence in Hosted Apps… for Everyone!
Replit is your computer — for whatever you need to do. We announced last year that Hackers would be able to have their h...
Fri, Feb 4, 2022Making new Python repls 100x faster to start up
Python is currently the world's (and Replit's) most popular programming language. We've improved the Python experience d...
- Mon, Jan 31, 2022
Understanding Repl Resource Utilization
Every computer on earth needs these three essential resources in some form: Processor Memory Storage The computers w...
Fri, Jan 21, 2022Going Where the Next Billion Creators Are
Mobile is the future of computing. But building good software creation tools for mobile devices is hard. Luckily, at Rep...
Tue, Jan 11, 2022Migrating our Web App from Heroku to GCP
After many years of running on Heroku, Replit has fully migrated to Google Cloud Platform. Why leave Heroku in the firs...
Wed, Dec 22, 2021Implementing RUI, Replit's Design System
At Replit, we have a small engineering and design team supporting millions of users. Our secret is investing in good too...
Tue, Dec 14, 2021Repl Space and Templates
When we want to support a new technology, we're faced with the question: "Do we (the Replit team) build this capability ...
Mon, Dec 13, 2021Ace, CodeMirror, and Monaco: A Comparison of the Code Editors You Use in the Browser
I’ve been working on Replit for roughly six years now, and as the team has grown, I’ve focused on the IDE (what we call ...
Mon, Nov 29, 2021Will Nix Overtake Docker?
In many discussions about Nix, the comparison of Nix and Docker comes up frequently. This question could be dismissed by...