Search code examples
javascriptcollaborationjsfiddle

Online, real-time, shared JavaScript console?


I would like to use an online tool to work remotely with people to do Javascript learning and testing exercises.

The solution could be a shared, public Javascript console.

Does such a thing exist? I have seen http://jsfiddle.net. This works ok, but we have to keep updating our URL every time the other person changes code so it is not real-time and requires an update step on both sides.

I think a low-feature real-time shared console would be a pretty trivial solution to build. I'm thinking of building it myself if it doesn't exist, but I wanted to check first and see if anyone has heard of something like this.


Solution

  • Almost two years later, a few great alternatives exist. The real-time enhancements to jsfiddle and plunkr are great, but for this use case, I haven't found any easier than Coderpad. It's marketed for doing code interviews and saves a history. Has JS/Coffeescript/Ruby/Java and more.