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A coworker and I made this today in a little over an hour after realizing we didn't really want a full-blown prototyping site a la jsfiddle. What we wanted instead was just a quick page we could load up with several popular libraries already in scope, so we could minimize our time to hacking.

We're very interested in hearing critiques of the page or opinions on what else you'd like to see there!

Oh, I didn't understand the page itself was made for testing, I thought it was a library, an util, something like it. My critique is: write it very large: "OPEN THE CONSOLE RIGHT ON THIS PAGE".

Nice sandbox for quick tests. Can we add backbone and knockout.js? Or a simple method to add scripts on demand? Although it's easy to over-engineer things -- Simple is probably a good thing. =)

Coworker here, thanks for the suggestions! We are definitely planning on a more dynamic selection of libraries. What we hope to avoid is an interface that has too many initial options, slowing down users who want to quickly use one of the 'default' libraries.

Also look at requirify: https://gist.github.com/mathisonian/c325dbe02ea4d6880c4e

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