Wed, Oct 12, 2022Analytics For Every Repl
Web hosting on Replit is simple yet effective. When you start a server in your repl, we automatically detect which port ...
Fri, Sep 23, 2022Worldwide Repls, part 2: Load balancing for fun (although not quite profit)
In our previous blog post about Worldwide Repls, we talked about how we revamped part of our infrastructure to build a n...
- Fri, Jul 8, 2022
Worldwide Repls, part 1: The Control Plane
During the ReplCon 2022 keynote, we announced that we were going to geo-distribute our infrastructure so that your Repls...
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, 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...
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...
- Thu, Nov 11, 2021
Announcing File Persistence in Hosted Apps for Hackers
We mostly think of repls as being full computers in the cloud, and one of the goals of the platform team at Replit is to...
Tue, Oct 12, 2021Faster Nix Repl Startup
For the past few months we have been working on improving our Nix integration. Nix allows users to easily use over 80,00...
Fri, Sep 10, 2021Data Loss: a sad tale with a happy ending
Earlier this year, we discovered that we were losing data for some of our users. This manifested as either repls being c...
- Wed, Sep 1, 2021
Making Replit Faster for Everyone
Replit's mission is to make programming accessible and provide computer superpowers. To achieve that goal, repls need to...