It's "magic", yes. Replit is not for you to mess around with the VNC or anything, that directly defeats its purpose. Replit is not a framework for building a Replit-like system. Replit is effectively just a way for you…
1. I'm assuming by "the box" you mean the VM. It gets started for you when you run the repl as a user who does not own it, and it will run a command specified in a configuration file (see…
1. The information gets from the VM to you through a custom WebSocket protocol called Goval (you can see the JS client at https://github.com/replit/crosis). It can do editing, console I/O, VNC, configuration of the…
It's a read-only "IDE" of sorts; it's effectively a disk image stored in the cloud, which when run will create a VM and send the output back to you. If you create an account, you can fork that repl to create your own…
It's "magic", yes. Replit is not for you to mess around with the VNC or anything, that directly defeats its purpose. Replit is not a framework for building a Replit-like system. Replit is effectively just a way for you…
1. I'm assuming by "the box" you mean the VM. It gets started for you when you run the repl as a user who does not own it, and it will run a command specified in a configuration file (see…
1. The information gets from the VM to you through a custom WebSocket protocol called Goval (you can see the JS client at https://github.com/replit/crosis). It can do editing, console I/O, VNC, configuration of the…
It's a read-only "IDE" of sorts; it's effectively a disk image stored in the cloud, which when run will create a VM and send the output back to you. If you create an account, you can fork that repl to create your own…