Codesandbox-client: Opening a terminal

[neunygph]

Hi, I'm new to codesandbox and I"m wondering how to open a terminal in order to run a npm command. I looked about my sandbox but I couldn't find any option to open a terminal.

Thanks,

[lbogdan]

Hey @neunygph , you can only open a terminal in a server sandbox, you can read this article for more info.

[neunygph]

Ah I see, thank you.

[lbogdan]

In other news, CodeSandbox Containers is out of beta as of today! 🙂

Closing this, if you're interested in more details about this feature, you can also find us on Spectrum .

[zommerfelds]

In case this helps anyone: to enable containers for an existing project you need to create a sandbox.config.json file with the following content before creating the sandbox:

{
  "template": "node"
}

I'm not sure if there is a way to change the sandbox once it's created.

[djnorrisdev]

Terminal is not showing up in codesandboxes for me, and this is long after the containers update. How can I get a terminal in a sandbox now?

[lbogdan]

Hey @djnorrisdev ,

In order to open a terminal you need a server sandbox that you own - meaning that you created it by forking an existing sandbox / template (as a note, you don't own GitHub imported sandboxes, even if you own the repository).

For example, go to the node template - https://codesandbox.io/s/node , fork it, and to open a terminal, press on the right + icon in the "Terminal" pane:

[lbogdan]

@zommerfelds

I'm not sure if there is a way to change the sandbox once it's created.

There isn't one for now, but it's definitely high up on our roadmap!

[djnorrisdev]

@Ibogdan,

Thanks, I was trying to get access to be able to npm or yarn install a privately hosted npm package. I’m guessing that’s not possible yet?