Sorce: Ajaxian
Pastebins have become an important part of sharing code with colleagues. Sites such as Pastebin & Pastie.org are extremely popular because they’re easy to use and very effective in letting people compare notes on source code, especially in a support setting.
Remy Sharp wanted to take the pastebin concept a step further, past the static posting of code. His idea, which he tossed around for 6 months, finally came to fruition in the form of JS Bin, a new pastebin site with a twist:
JS Bin is a form of paste bin, but with a twist. It allows you to also include the HTML and CSS to provide context to your pasty. As such, it means you can actually run the JavaScript and pass this on to a colleague to help to debug.
This is a great idea as it lets you troubleshoot your code while seeing immediate results. The feature list is well thought out as well.
- Save private snippet
- Remote Ajax debugging
- Snippet URLs run entirely on their own (i.e. without the JS Bin framework around them)
- Support to quickly inject major JS libraries including jQuery, jQuery UI, Prototype, Scriptaculous, Dojo, MooTools & YUI
- Saves state within the open window (i.e. refresh and the code doesn’t reset)
The ability to inject many of the popular JavaScript libraries is especially important and I would highly recommend individual project teams to contact Remy directly to have their libs included.
To give this a run, I’d suggest going to the JS Bin site and putting it through its paces. In addition, Remy has produced two videos which go into detail on how to leverage JS Bin:
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