[General]: Should we transition from CodeSandbox to StackBlitz?

[davidjerleke]

Summary

Hi guys!

At the time of writing, all examples on the examples page including the carousel generator are using the CodeSandbox API to automatically generate sandboxes.

However, as you might have noticed, CodeSandbox will introduce their 20 sandbox limit for Free Plans, effective today (30th of January). This might seriously limit collaborative debugging when devs create bug reports and also when devs want to try out multiple examples and realise that they've reached their sandbox limit.

I guess this means that we need to find an alternative. Looking at the StackBlitz pricing, the free plan includes Unlimited projects and collections, so in my opinion this is a good candidate.

• What do you think?
• Do you have experience with StackBlitz? Pros and cons?
• Any other alternatives out there?

Share your thoughts here!

Best,
David

If applicable, which variants of Embla Carousel are relevant to this conversation?

• embla-carousel-docs (Documentation)
• embla-carousel-docs (Generator)

[sarussss]

Hi @davidjerleke
It's sad to hear about it, I have no experience using StackBlitz but I think the switch is necessary, hope everything goes well.
Thanks for the work you are doing.

[Enkratia]

StackBlitz is much faster than CodeSandbox, so it should improve the project in some way.

[sarussss]

Hi @davidjerleke
You can try Codepen

[davidjerleke]

Thanks for the tip @sarussss.

I think CodePen isn't good enough compared to CodeSandbox and StackBlitz. It isn't as intuitive and is missing a lot of features that CodeSandbox and StackBlitz have.

[davidjerleke]

I will continue with CodeSandbox for now because they offer unlimited Dev boxes.