In the 80s home computers shipped with a programming language as their OS (BASIC language to be precise) - today the browser dev tools are the closest equivalent. You can use them on any PC with no additional software - wished it was made more obvious so everyone could experiment with programming like those of us who got their first computer experience 25-30 years ago could do.
Speaking of text editors within browser dev tools, I like Scratchpad quite a bit. <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Scratchpad" rel="nofollow">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Scratchpad</a><p>It's built-in in Firefox, but can be installed on Chrome as well.
Pretty cool. But surely not a patch on Firefox's built-in JavaScript editor, which has autocomplete and inline documentation:<p><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Scratchpad" rel="nofollow">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Scratchpad</a><p>That said, something missing from both is an easy way to import and export the code.
I have always loved Snippets and the whole Chrome Souces ecosystem in general. In fact, I use Sources as my editor of choice over Sublime, Notepad++, etc. I find the "map to local" feature outdoes anything I use from the other editors. Only gripe is I wish snippets were stored as text files (or at least that was an option)... couple weeks ago my Chrome profile got corrupted and I lost like a year of snippets.
Is that possible to run these snippets automatically once page is loaded? I guess this will raise some security issues if it's possible, but I don't want to use things like Tampermonkey anymore.
I know a lot of developers basically treat Google as Jeebus returned, and therefor infallible, but this just seems like unnecessary bloat.<p>What's next, a JS minifier built into Chrome, so 1% of users can use it as an IDE while everyone else just gets more shit they don't need or want?