Show HN: Full rewrite of Plunker, an online code editor with real-time features

by gbadman • 14 years ago

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gbadman4• 14 years ago

Source: https://github.com/filearts/plunker

Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/plunker

I'm looking for constructive feedback on what can make this a go-to replacement for awesome sites like jsFiddle.net and jsbin.com

atlassic• 14 years ago

> I'm looking for constructive feedback on what can make this a go-to replacement for awesome sites like jsFiddle.net and jsbin.com

This seems like the wrong goal. Nobody wants a replacement for an existing site, just because.

To quote Ashton Kutcher: Mark Zuckerberg will always be a better Mark Zuckerberg than you. You won't make a better jsFiddle by trying to be a jsFiddle.

Do something that jsFiddle.net and jsbin.com don't do, or do it much better (read: simpler). Quick idea: git access.

gbadman4• 14 years ago

Hi atlassic, you are right on that point. Perhaps I have poorly articulated my request.

Plunker is different from those sites in one key respect (and several other smaller ways):

Each plunk is run as a first class web citizen

This means that XHR requests against files within the same plunk just work. Anything that would work as if the files were statically hosted on github pages would also work on this, making it an excellent and non-artificial testing ground for web snippets.

boopboop2• 14 years ago

plnkr.co appears to be offline

boopboop2• 14 years ago

The website was showing a 404. It works now...

gbadman4• 14 years ago

Yep, as your typical weekend hacker I was completely oblivious to the real torrent that is the HN front page.

The awesome guys at http://www.nodejitsu.com/ are helping me weather the storm. Alas it seems to be my backend code that just isn't cutting it!

Would love for some helpful hackers to point me in the right direction (https://github.com/filearts/plunker).

tmchow• 14 years ago

Great work on this. While I love jsfiddle, I do like Plunker's 1 click support for bootstrap and the "live discussion" feature.

MrDOS• 14 years ago

FYI, the top-half of the “+NEW…” link is covered by the logo link to the Plunker front page. Kind of disconcerting to suddenly be redirected away from your workspace with unsaved changes. (Firefox 14, Mac OS X.)

gbadman4• 14 years ago

Hi MrDOS, thanks for pointing that out. I fixed it yesterday.

Show HN: Full rewrite of Plunker, an online code editor with real-time features

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