Thanks for looking into it! I will look into the delay.
In regards to google analytics, it helps me understand what users are using more and how to improve the experience - I wouldn't use it if these events weren't anonymized and were collecting more data than necessary.
Having said that, whatever data you input into the utils available will definitely not leave the browser, which I found to be a major concern for a lot of users.
I forget how many times I have to google for simple utils to help me with my job. Not only that, I further spend time trying to search for a clean and easy to use solution every time. And, in the end, I never remember to bookmark the link for some reason.
I wish there was a directory of such tools with a clean and consistent interface that would be the go-to place when I needed these simple tools. That is the goal of baseutils.com.
I spend more time than I thought I would be (in this age of JS frameworks) still using raw HTML, CSS, JS playgrounds for quick prototyping and iteration.
However, the current solutions out there always fell short of what I've wanted:
- Minimal
- More modern UI/UX
- Instant feedback loop. No page reload, or server request on changes.
- Better JS -> Console diagnostics.
- Ability to resize the playground to my needs.
It's a complete static website, free to use. Happy to any feedback.
Funny that you mentioned this as I added some heuristics to my playground [1] yesterday for this use case. It relies on Babel [2] which looks for `for`, `while` and `do-while` loops and injects a counter that throws an 'infinite loop detected' error to prevent the browser freezing. You can opt out if you know what you are doing. It's not perfect, but it covers this base cases.
I really spend more time than I thought I would be (in this age of JS frameworks) using dead simple HTML, CSS, JS playgrounds for quick prototyping and iteration.
I did eventually end up building one for myself and made it available [1] that the goal was a clean UI/UX, minimal and instant live feedback loop with no extra calls to the server - just a simple static website. It defaults to a JS playground since it's what I use the most but HTML and CSS can be toggled.
In regards to google analytics, it helps me understand what users are using more and how to improve the experience - I wouldn't use it if these events weren't anonymized and were collecting more data than necessary.
Having said that, whatever data you input into the utils available will definitely not leave the browser, which I found to be a major concern for a lot of users.