Lucas Smith

Software Engineer

Hey there! I'm Lucas, a software engineer located in Australia. I enjoy working with all things technology and have dabbled in way too many things over the past years.


So Stackblitz is pretty awesome!

I've recently seen Stackblitz taking over when it comes to documentation for frameworks and similar with it being the defacto choice of playground for those that I use on a day to day basis.

Knowing this I thought I'd experiment with it in my prior article, using it to showcase the implementation of a layout system for Vue (3).

Initially I thought it would be much the same as Codesandbox where I can either start a new playground or import a github repository. Fortunately, I was totally wrong and without even so much as needing an account I am able to quickly view a github repository and start the accompanying dev server.

Honestly it's shocking how good this is! I was already super happy with github.dev for being able to view a repository without needing to pull it locally, but this just takes it a step further.

I'm yet to see how the editing experience compares with Github, I imagine it won't be quite as good. But I've never particularly found myself coding in a Web IDE all that much except for back in the old Cloud9 days (circa 2014).

That said, I really do hope the team roll out a light theme soon as my eyes really can't take the darker themes.

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