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

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

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