# Rdamn - Online playground IDEs

> A fully featured online IDE service that allows anyone to quickly boot up and run Next.JS, Express or any other projects without any effort.

- Source: https://rao.dev/blog/rdamn
- Published: 2022-03-15
- Updated: 2024-11-17
- Tags: rdamn, webdev, ide, playground, codedamn

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I had always been very intrigued by
[codedamn's online playgrounds](https://codedamn.com/playgrounds) and wanted to
figure out how something like that would work. So I decided to try to build it
from scratch on my own.

It took me almost a month to build it but I had implemented almost all the
functionalities that codedamn playgrounds had at that time. I sent my project to
the founder of codedamn who was so impressed by it that he decided to hire me
full-time :)

Here are a couple of screenshots from rdamn:

<Figure src={image1} alt="Landing page" />
<Figure src={image2} alt="Playgrounds interface" />

This project was definitely the most interesting and complex one I had attempted
till date. I learnt a lot while building it. I had to:

- Implement my own DNS servers for providing nice and friendly urls for client
  connections
- Set up a custom container orchestrator system for safely booting playgrounds
  quickly on demand and shutting them down when the client disconnects
- Build an s3 synchronization service that saves the user's data to s3 and
  restores from it when a user starts their session after inactivity
- Work with monaco, xterm and other frontend libraries for a good user
  experience

...and many other things that helped me become a better programmer.

Check out rdamn's GitHub repo to know more about how it works:
[https://github.com/rishabhrao/rdamn](https://github.com/rishabhrao/rdamn)