Online Editors (codesandbox is my best)

#codesandbox #html #css #onlinecoding

In this lockdown, I've committed to a lot of projects and I feel I have worked on none of them - sad right 😢!!!

Well, I redeemed myself in some voluntary online lessons I'm carrying on with a team and it has @chrosbie(her dev.to account, twitter handle) and other facilitators.
Last Saturday I led a class on Introduction to HTML and I believe it was a success(hopefully). Later in the week, I set some exercises for my students.

As any good teacher would be, I had to go through the assignments I gave my students and one of them was using online editors like codesandbox, codepen,Glitch,jsfiddle etc

So I went through the different online editors and so far, codesandbox is my best, WHY???
It is because of the following reasons:-

You can create any project be it a static page(HTML) / Vanilla js or in any framework, cool right 👍!!!
Can create a Github repo (Export to GitHub), yes, without leaving the site but doing it codesandbox itself.
Can import an existing GitHub repo.
Can still create Github pages, oh this is so cool 😊.
Then you can commit changes to your repo, create a pull request(PR).
Can go live - create a live session and share the link with your colleagues.
Can publish your project to Netlify - Oh yes, this is the super coolest 😃 feature for me.

Feel free to checkout my codesandbox projects on Lailah Grant , my GitHub repo on my W3 schools recap, my GitHub Page on my W3 schools recap

Go check codesandbox out, discover/explore cool features by yourself and it will be the best experience ever. 😀

Thanks for your time, stay safe, social distance and wash your hands

Top comments (6)

Hugo GEORGET • May 29 '20

I learned about Gitpod.
It gives you access to a VSCode instance in the cloud !

It has several restrictions though (see pricing).

You can try it for free if you want a taste of what GitHub Codespaces are going to be !