Inside the Box: October Community Update
Tags: webdev, news, productivity, community
Published: 2023-11-06 23:59:33



Hellloooo 👋

A new month is upon us—the one you would think is the ninth ("Nov...") but showed up late to the party so got relegated to eleventh place in the calendar. Any good songs about it?

'Till we find one, let's see what kept us busy at CodeSandbox this last month!

## Latest Product News

[Dev Container support](https://codesandbox.io/blog/introducing-dev-container-support-in-codesandbox) 📦 — In one of our biggest product releases of 2023, we introduced Dev Container spec in CodeSandbox. This is now the default spec for all CodeSandbox projects and you can use our brand-new DevTool to configure *any* environment in seconds 🔥

Plus, with the latest update to our VS Code extension, you can now connect to containers running inside the CodeSandbox microVMs using the Dev Containers extension. This brings improved support for repos and sandboxes configured with Dev Containers and gets rid of the VS Code "trust" modal.

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[CodeSandbox Enterprise](https://codesandbox.io/enterprise) 🏦 — We introduced [CodeSandbox Enterprise](https://codesandbox.io/blog/introducing-codesandbox-enterprise) as a new offering that brings scalability, availability, security and trust to our CDE—the only one in the market that spins up an environment in 1.5 seconds, is available 24/7, and is fully collaborative. [Private beta ](https://codesandbox.io/enterprise)is now open!

[Boxy AI gets GPT-4]("https://codesandbox.io/docs/learn/boxy/overview) 🤖 — We have upgraded [Boxy](https://codesandbox.io/docs/learn/boxy/overview), your CodeSandbox AI assistant, to use GPT-4 by default. Based on our testing, this (as expected) greatly increases the quality of Boxy's responses. (Boxy is available to Pro subscribers.)

[Full Changelog]("https://codesandbox.io/changelog) — This past month, we made a lot of improvements and fixes across the board but we also shipped some powerful new features. Check the [changelog page]("https://codesandbox.io/changelog) for all the details on what we shipped 🚀

## Meet Us @ Events

[CityJS Berlin](https://berlin.cityjsconf.org/speaker/5LmK5XHrcOuWxbLZZd94BM) — This Friday, [Ioana Chiorean](https://twitter.com/ioana_cis), our Engineering and DevRel Manager, is MCing the main stage at City JS Berlin. If you are around do say hi—we hear she's carrying some swag! You can also[ follow the live stream](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOZonLbLfsE) of the main track and of the [focus room](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSXhNutLjYU).

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[JS Heroes Meetup]("https://www.meetup.com/jsheroes/events/296661103) — Mid-October, [Alex Moldovan](https://twitter.com/alexnmoldovan), Product Engineer here at CodeSandbox, took part in "A round table on today’s market conditions".

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[ElixirConf]("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSwxNgza7hE3), Orlando — At the beginning of October, our colleague [AJ Foster](https://hachyderm.io/@aj), Back-end Engineer here at CodeSandbox, spoke about "Filling the Gaps in the Ecosystem". The [recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSwxNgza7hE) of the talk is up now!

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## Web Bytes

[DevContainers panel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bh3gww_laA) — This week, we hosted a panel discussion on bringing a universal spec to cloud development environments. [Ioana Chiorean](https://twitter.com/ioana_cis) was joined by [Joji Augustine](https://twitter.com/joji_augustine) and [Danilo Woznica](https://twitter.com/danilowoz) for a panel on the fresh support for DevContainers—that's right, the one you read above in Product Updates!

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[Engineer @ Work](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMQySfTmgOk): Solving puzzling engineering challenges with Impact! — Our lead engineer [Christian Alfoni](https://twitter.com/AlfoniChristian) is continuing this series and goes live a couple of times a week trying to solve some of our most complex engineering problems. In October, [Danilo Woznica](https://twitter.com/danilowoz) joined him and they had a blast! Check [this one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93ST98WLNA4), and [this other one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz5xg0Qz8Ic). More to come!

[Hacktoberfest](https://hacktoberfest.com/) — Hacktoberfest is over… or is it? 😌 Before the Hacktoberfest blues kick in, don’t forget that open source is never out of season! And a new celebration of Advent of Code is almost knocking at our doors. So, let’s keep the spirit of contributions going! Some of our engineers shared their [advice](https://codesandbox.io/blog/celebrating-hacktoberfest-with-tips-for-open-source) with those who want to contribute to open source. [Start now](https://csb.new/)!

## Community Spotlight

Each Friday, we use Twitter (X?) to shine a light on some of the best projects amazing people create using our platform. But this Friday, we start with a BIG announcement!

[CodeSandbox Community](https://www.codesandbox.community/) 💖 — We are extremely happy to launch our new community space! We created an environment on Circle where you can share your stories and your projects, raise some feature requests, and get in touch with us! As a treasured community member, you get an early invite to [join the community](https://www.codesandbox.community/) before we launch it next week. Don't forget to introduce yourself!

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[Virtual Tropical Beach](https://twitter.com/codesandbox/status/1720401945351836103/) — Autumn kinda settled in around Europe... And with the clock change too, we would definitely enjoy a sunnier place 🏝️ or a glimpse of it! Who’s in? A ✨ Community Spotlight ✨ shoutout to @[cantbefaraz](https://twitter.com/CantBeFaraz/status/1687247578465701888) for creating it!

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We really love seeing what you build using CodeSandbox. So do share with us what you’re working on or which insights you would like to hear from us.

## Thank You ❤️

We hope you enjoyed this issue of Inside the Box!

We are curious about what you feel is missing from these newsletters and what you would like us to add to the next one!

What should we bring next? Tell us on our new [community space](https://www.codesandbox.community/)!