Ever since we introduced third-party package support for Python we've seen an explosion of exciting programs on Repl.it. Everything from games to machine-learning applications that just weren't possible before.

Today we're happy to announce that we're expanding this to support Node.js. Just require your dependencies and we'll handle the rest for you. Here is a working repl that gets my Github stats. It uses request to fetch the data and underscore to filter the relevant stats.

This is an early (open beta) release so please let us know if you hit any bugs or issues. We're currently working on the following:

package.json support: if you have a package.json in your project we'll use that instead of parsing the requires. This will likely come in the next couple of days.

in your project we'll use that instead of parsing the requires. This will likely come in the next couple of days. Caching: if you install a package on a repl it will be cached forever.

Global caching: if you or someone else on Repl.it installs a package we'll centrally cache it to make subsequent installs faster.

Feedback welcome!