CodePen

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CodePen is a silo for hosting HTML, CSS and JavaScript snippets to demonstrate the capabilities of the client-side Web.

Features

• Profile
  • rel-me linking to multiple other sites! E.g. https://codepen.io/adactio
• Export
  • CodePen pens can be exported to ZIP files or to GitHub gists.
• Premium accounts can save private pens
• API
  • CodePen's API v2

The CodePen API v2 lets you read and write your CodePen Pens, Collections, and Assets from your own tools: scripts, build steps, CI jobs, editors, and AI agents.

• • Adding My Latest CodePens to My Blog by Raymond Camden (uses JavaScript to capture pens to an SSG)

Criticism

Depends on AWS

(though that’s true for many sites)

• Criticism: depends on AWS (and thus vulnerable to their outages) https://twitter.com/AndreJaenisch/status/1331901136245305345
  • "Imagine CodePen going down.
    
    Or Amazon having yet another outage *cough
    
    You are stuck.
    
    If you have different domains hosting code, the whole system becomes more resilient to failures (the original motivation behind the Internet)." @AndreJaenisch November 26, 2020

See Also

• silo