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Arbitrary Code Execution Demo

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Have you ever wondered what happens behind the scenes when you hit "Run" on a code snippet in online development environments like Go Playground or Repl.it?

Detailed instructions

https://dev.to/acoh3n/lets-build-a-code-execution-engine-4kgi

Running the demo

You'll need:

  • Go version 1.19 or better installed.
  • Docker

Start the server:

go run main.go run standalone

Execute a code snippet. Example

curl \
  -s \
  -X POST \
  -H "content-type:application/json" \
  -d '{"language":"python","code":"print(\"hello world\")"}' \
  http://localhost:8000/execute

Should output:

hello world

You can try changing the language to go or bash.

Frontend

cd frontend
npm i
npm run dev