Show HN: I built an open source Codepen alternative – Devcanvas

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2 points·abdulmuminyqn··4 comments

DevCanvas (devcanvas.art) began as a fun experiment born from my journey learning SvelteKit and Supabase. What started as a simple platform for storing code snippets quickly evolved into something much more cooler: an online editor that makes it easy to prototype and share ideas quickly and effortlessly.

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Nice execution. I toyed around with it a bit and it did what I expected. Great job!

The main page had a few UI things I noticed, The feature section changed the cursor to a pointer which made my think I could click on it but that didn't do anything. The embedded iframe at the bottom showed a cursor when I clicked into it but didn't let me type. It would be awesome to be able to type and have it reflect the changes right there instead of requiring the user to 'GOTO canvas' to actually change anything.

Thanks for the feedback, I also think the embed should work that way, but did't bother to comeback to fix it when i got it working at first!

This is pretty neat. It was pretty simple to get started, and the updates in the preview are nice and fast. For me I can see myself using this for prototyping. I do wish though that there was a way to use it anonymously. You've already got the service worker part, so why not allow the user to save their work to a service worker cache?

Thanks for the feedback !

Would add your suggestion to our roadmap! I had that in mind before, but quickly scraped it, as synchronization would be a pain and slow down the MVP.

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