Show HN: CLI for trying out Node.js modules easier

Re:Show HN: CLI for trying out Node.js modules easier by boucher on Monday March 14, 2016 @09:06AM (#11282606)

Obviously it won't work offline if you haven't already installed the package (which seems like the general case?)

I'm biased of course, and I understand why some people are turned off by an in browser solution. But I think it's probably faster, in most cases, to try something you've never installed in Tonic than in this. (And I hope there's genuine value in things like being able to share links to your experiments.)

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Re:Show HN: CLI for trying out Node.js modules easier by diggan on Monday March 14, 2016 @09:15AM (#11282668)

Yeah, that is true for sure, difference being that the 10% use-case (installed package before, offline now) is still usable if it's local and not on tonic-dev.

I like tonic-dev, don't get me wrong. But the workflow for using a package in tonic-dev is too slow compared to having it in a REPL, at least for me. Might be because I'm using Firefox and the performance for tonic-dev is terrible there, but mostly because I feel more at home in the terminal than in a js-editor in the browser.

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Re:Show HN: CLI for trying out Node.js modules easier by boucher on Monday March 14, 2016 @10:19AM (#11283015)

Understood. We definitely have work to do in Firefox.

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