nooshu » MooTools Archives http://nooshu.com Kneeling on the shoulders of giants Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:42:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= jsFiddle: My new favourite website http://nooshu.com/jsfiddle-my-new-favourite-website?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jsfiddle-my-new-favourite-website http://nooshu.com/jsfiddle-my-new-favourite-website#comments Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:45:52 +0000 Matt http://nooshu.com/?p=312 Every so often you come across a site that is so amazingly obvious that you think “why didn’t I think of that!”, jsFiddle is one of those sites. It allows you to paste your HTML, CSS and JavaScript code, and view the result all in the same page…simple! There are other sites out there that do the same such as Jsbin, but they just don’t do it as well.

My favourite feature that really stands out is being able to include one of the many popular JavaScript library’s by simple toggling a drop-down box; it even has different versions of each library to choose from. This is a really handy feature if you are a plug-in developer; keep your plug-in code in jsFiddle and quickly see if the latest version of the library breaks it.

jsFiddle code snippet GUI

Quickly view your code change at the touch of a button

Library’s included so far are:

  • Mootools Core
  • jQuery
  • Prototype
  • YUI
  • BBC Glow
  • Dojo
  • Processing.js

A couple of other features available are the easy to access code examples for each library and ability to run Ajax requests directly in the page. It’s like a mini IDE in your browser, all it needs now is an error console; maybe that is on their to-do list. If you don’t use JavaScript library’s and just want vanilla JavaScript, they have that option too.

As an example I’ve added my charactersLeft jQuery plug-in to jsFiddle, take a look here. Very cool huh!

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