Re:Ask HN: Share Your Favorite Bookmarklets
by ashtonmeuser on Friday April 04, 2025 @12:37PM
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For anyone stumbling upon this that deals with bookmarklets, I submit bookmarkl.ink[0], a tool I made to ease the maintenance of bookmarklets.
In short, it pulls code from GitHub Gists (which have the benefit of being backed by git repos), transpiles, minifies, bundles, and wraps in an IIFE. It's also got a basic module resolver that allows you to include libraries or remote files.
This allows you to use creature comforts like TS and libraries and maintain code readability while still ending up with the smallest possible bookmarklet. It also allows you to link to a particular version (git hash), present user-defined variables, edit code in an inline editor, etc.
In short, it pulls code from GitHub Gists (which have the benefit of being backed by git repos), transpiles, minifies, bundles, and wraps in an IIFE. It's also got a basic module resolver that allows you to include libraries or remote files.
This allows you to use creature comforts like TS and libraries and maintain code readability while still ending up with the smallest possible bookmarklet. It also allows you to link to a particular version (git hash), present user-defined variables, edit code in an inline editor, etc.
Enjoy!
[0]: https://bookmarkl.ink