Ask HN: What would you want in a jsFiddle/CodePen alternative?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5769595

by zombio • 13 years ago

3 1 13 years ago

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I recently wrote a tutorial on the subject and it got me thinking. So, what would you want?

michaelw• 13 years ago

I use http://plnkr.co and apart from the outrageous amounts of memory it can consume it's pretty good.

Features I like about Plunker: - Multiple files - Great code editor (ACE) - Streaming collaboration mode (so others can follow along) - Versioning

Features I want: - Test endpoints (echo and/or redirect to a resource would be fine) - Github integration: able to save and load assets to and from github - Add Javascript librarie references from CDN (jsbin does this best) - Unit test support (some do this but it could be better) - Easily self-hosted for use on an offline laptop - Mobile previews - Better search (find me all the fiddles/plunks that include calls to angular.extend)

OK, I want these things to turn into lightweight IDEs and REPLs.

Ask HN: What would you want in a jsFiddle/CodePen alternative?

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