Why I Started Building a Local-First Browser IDE

Why I Started Building a Local-First Browser IDE Modern development environments are more powerful than ever, but they’ve also become increasingly heavy, latency-dependent, and complex over time. After spending years working with browser-based tools, I became obsessed with one question: Why do so many coding environments still feel slow despite modern hardware and browsers becoming incredibly powerful? That question eventually led me to start building NitroIDE — a local-first browser IDE focused