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I tend to disagree here. I think a few major things Electron Fiddle will bring to the table are: - the ability to easily get Electron help on StackOverflow,

I tend to disagree here. I think a few major things Electron Fiddle will bring to the table are: - the ability to easily get Electron help on StackOverflow, etc. by sharing the exact code you're running - one click (or close to it) examples of every single Electron API (I often find examples jsfiddles to be a much faster way to learn how to use a new API than digging through documentation) - possibly making it easier for people who are new to coding to get their feet wet in programming a desktop app without having to open a terminal. This is especially true if they can start with a working app and just tweak small things and see their tweaks reflected in the running app. All people are different, of course, but my biggest use cases of jsfiddle are using examples to learn how to use new frameworks. I’m excited to see the same thing for Electron apps!

Stratoscope 8y ago
Readable version of your bullet points: - the ability to easily get Electron help on StackOverflow, etc. by sharing the exact code you're running - one click (or close to it) examples of every single Electron API (I often find examples jsfiddles to be a much faster way to learn how to use a new API than digging through documentation) - possibly making it easier for people who are new to coding to get their feet wet in programming a desktop app without having to open a terminal. This is especially true if they can start with a working app and just tweak small things and see their tweaks reflected in the running app. (Don't use two space indents to force code style except for code samples.)
- lowboy 8y ago
  Thanks for pasting it as normal text. Code style for textual content is especially bad on mobile.
gitgud 8y ago
Yes those are some good points. I guess my main problem is that it claims to be similar to JS Fiddle, when really it's closer to an IDE. For example take the IntelliJ IDE; - It's cross platform - Can run apps straight from stackoverflow - Present configurations, so people can focus on coding rather than tweaking. Electron Fiddle is basically the same thing, to me it would be more appropriate to call this Electron IDE. I'm still impressed and believe it will be a useful tool, though.

Stratoscope 8y ago

Readable version of your bullet points: - the ability to easily get Electron help on StackOverflow, etc. by sharing the exact code you're running - one click (or close to it) examples of every single Electron API (I often find examples jsfiddles to be a much faster way to learn how to use a new API than digging through documentation) - possibly making it easier for people who are new to coding to get their feet wet in programming a desktop app without having to open a terminal. This is especially true if they can start with a working app and just tweak small things and see their tweaks reflected in the running app. (Don't use two space indents to force code style except for code samples.)

lowboy 8y ago
Thanks for pasting it as normal text. Code style for textual content is especially bad on mobile.

gitgud 8y ago

Yes those are some good points. I guess my main problem is that it claims to be similar to JS Fiddle, when really it's closer to an IDE. For example take the IntelliJ IDE; - It's cross platform - Can run apps straight from stackoverflow - Present configurations, so people can focus on coding rather than tweaking. Electron Fiddle is basically the same thing, to me it would be more appropriate to call this Electron IDE. I'm still impressed and believe it will be a useful tool, though.