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Secure & isolated JS environments for nodejs

7 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 2 stories, 5 comments · first 2017-11-09 · latest 2026-01-05

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  1. https://github.com/laverdet/isolated-vm https://github.com/fulcrumapp/v8-sandbox But yeah, interesting, it might not exist.
    comment by 15155 · 2026-01-05 · in JavaScript engines zoo – Compare every JavaScript engine
  2. Not a silver bullet, but did you look into isolated-vm? https://github.com/laverdet/isolated-vm But generally, I think best bet is to offload such things to e.g. Lambda per tenant.
    comment by HatchedLake721 · 2026-01-04 · in JavaScript engines zoo – Compare every JavaScript engine
  3. …lower level v8, but replicating "fetch" and the other CF workers primitives is a big chunk of work: https://github.com/laverdet/isolated-vm Deno is the best OSS out there for "faking" edge workers: https://deno.land/manual@v1.4.6/runtime/wo…
    comment by mrkurt · 2021-07-06 · in Miniflare – Local simulator for developing and testing Cloudflare Workers
  4. https://github.com/laverdet/isolated-vm is similar, and used by a competitor that has a similar offer
    comment by iovoid · 2018-11-12 · in Cloud Computing Without Containers
  5. …v8. v8 and by extension isolated-vm by itself does not cover things like fetch if we're talking JS. https://github.com/laverdet/isolated-vm/issues/63 This is an immediete killer as js browser features are part of why a js engine is wanted.…
    comment by devwastaken · 2018-10-02 · in You can now run WebAssembly on Cloudflare Workers