Re:Show HN: Full rewrite of Plunker, an online code editor w...
by atlassic on Wednesday August 22, 2012 @11:14AM
(#4417744)
> 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.
Re:Show HN: Full rewrite of Plunker, an online code editor w...
by gbadman on Wednesday August 22, 2012 @11:21AM
(#4417780)
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.
Re:Show HN: Full rewrite of Plunker, an online code editor w...
by MrDOS on Wednesday August 22, 2012 @02:09PM
(#4418711)
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.)
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
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.
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.
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).