New tool: an nginx playground

666 · Julia Evans · Sept. 24, 2021, 3:01 p.m.
Hello! On Wednesday I was talking to a friend about how it would be cool to have an nginx playground website where you can just paste in an nginx config and test it out. And then I realized it might actually be pretty easy to build, so got excited and started coding and I built it. It’s at https://nginx-playground.wizardzines.com. Here’s a screenshot: For the rest of the post I’m mostly going to talk about how I built the project, because there were a few decisions that weren’t obvious to me. h...