Changelog
New Editor Powered by Web VS Code, Test Runner, and Several Improvements
Our July 2024 CodeSandbox update brings a shiny new editor, old features reborn, and many improvements.
Hi there 👋
We are back with one of the most exciting updates of 2024 so far!
After a lot of hard work, iteration and user feedback, we have launched a major editor update and some highly-requested features and improvements.
Let's jump right into it!
What's new?
New editor powered by VS Code Web 🔥
After additional testing with thousands of beta users, we have officially rolled out our new editor powered by VS Code Web. Our biggest editor overhaul in years combines the familiarity and extensibility of VS Code Web with the power of CodeSandbox DevTools.
For now, you can revert to the old experience by clicking “Disable VS Code Web” at the editor's top right.
The test runner is back and better than ever 🧪
Many of our users have relied on the tests feature of our legacy editor for educational purposes and prototyping new features in isolation. Now, it's available in our new editor and has some improvements like test auto-detection and pinning.
Major overhaul of the Docs 📄
With the launch of the new editor, we saw the perfect opportunity to bundle a series of updates to our Docs. We have added and updated documentation pages for the main product flows and freshened up our FAQ with questions our community shared over the past few months.
Improvements & Bug Fixes
Enhanced trust verifications and prompts to deter phishing.
Several updates and fixes to Sandpack.
Improved the UX of error messages: 404 message for unauthenticated users; max-size message.
Improved the UI of the dependency picker.
Fixed an issue when a private registry has an invalid URL.
Fixed an issue where the 'VS Code beta' modal appeared on every file open.
Fixed an issue where a search with special characters crashed the Sandbox.
Removed Boxy AI assistant.
Removed CodeSandbox for iOS from the App Store.
Several CI/CD updates, improvements and fixes.
Several updates, improvements and fixes to draft limits, contribution branches, default user authorizations, Sandbox archiving, warnings, branch deletion, and internal tools.
Several other general improvements and bug fixes, mostly focused on improving stability.
And with that, we bid July adieu!
Remember to drop by our community platform to leave your feedback and feature requests!
See you in the next one 👋