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The Best Tools for UI Hacking (not jsFiddle)

by williamnewton on 3/5/14, 2:08 AM with 32 comments

  • by surreal on 3/5/14, 2:45 AM

    Some helpful tips, thanks William. It would be helpful if you explained WHY these are better than jsfiddle though - I'm not disputing that they may well be, but most of the points you list apply to jsfiddle too making your opening remarks a little confusing. What do these do better?
  • by jnbiche on 3/5/14, 1:49 PM

    Do any of these browser editor/online IDEs have any sort of Vim emulation? I'd be happy with just the basic keyboard shortcuts.

    I know there are browser extensions that allow Vim emulation, but those are generally more oriented toward controlling the browser, rather than using an editor.

  • by Xdes on 3/5/14, 12:17 PM

    A designer friend uses Google Web Designer. They've noted it's gotten a lot better since the release. It also doesn't generate garbage markup like Dreamweaver or similar tools.
  • by grej on 3/5/14, 3:11 AM

    For those working on d3.js visualizations, tributary.io is a great site worth checking out.
  • by chadscira on 3/5/14, 3:18 AM

    http://dabblet.com is pretty cool too, it saves to gists
  • by RazorX on 3/5/14, 3:12 AM

    What about codepen, or is that just a jsfiddle alternative?
  • by lechevalierd3on on 3/5/14, 3:42 AM

    And what about MFiddle to have fun with MontageJS :) http://montagejs.github.io/mfiddle/
  • by IAMsterdam on 3/5/14, 8:10 AM

    I use cactusformac.com and as a non- technical guy i was stil able to upload my project (http://kabaal.co) on the Amazon infrastructure. Cactus even connected the DNS from AWS with my hosting service. I see realtime changes in my browser when i code and i can deploy it with just one button.
  • by ryanatkn on 3/5/14, 3:13 AM

    Another interesting one is RequireBin[1]. It lets you require npm modules from the browser via browserify and browserify-cdn.

    [1] http://requirebin.com/

  • by tikwidd on 3/5/14, 3:19 AM

    It would be great to have a web-based live js editor with github integration via the github api, so I could edit files in a repo and do commits without having to leave the editor.
  • by rimantas on 3/5/14, 7:42 AM

    codeMagic.gr looks really nice. Emmet? Ability to code in SCSS and CoffeeScript? Yes, please!
  • by iterable on 3/5/14, 2:09 AM

    nice dude. you have an email list?