CodePen vs LiveCodes
CodePen
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| Figure | CodePen | LiveCodes |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $8/mo | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 4 | 1 |
| Spec score · Coding Playgrounds | 8.7 (#19) | 8.2 (#51) |
| Spec score · Code Playground Software | 8.6 (#8) | 8.1 (#16) |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Private projects | Yes | Yes |
| Purpose | CodePen is a social development environment for front-end designers and developers to build, test, deploy, share, and discover front-end code. | LiveCodes is an open-source, browser-based code playground for prototyping and experimenting with more than 90 languages, frameworks, and processors. |
| Security | CodePen says it uses security processes, firewalls, and generally available security technologies, and states that it cannot guarantee data security from intrusion or unauthorized release. | User code, result pages, and compilers run in sandboxed iframes with unique origins, and embedded playgrounds cannot access the embedding page's cookies or local storage. |
| Support | CodePen directs users to its documentation and an online support form, and lists [email protected] as a contact address. | Feature requests and bug reports are accepted on the GitHub repository, and users can also contact the maintainers through the contact form. |
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CodePen
CodePen is a web-based social development environment for creating, testing, deploying, sharing and discovering front-end code. In a Pen, users write HTML, CSS and JavaScript and see a live browser preview. It supports HTML preprocessors such as Markdown, Haml, Slim and Pug, and CSS preprocessors including Sass, Less, Stylus and PostCSS. The CodePen 2.0 editor supports automatic preprocessing, live previews, file systems, version history, collaboration and one-click Pen deployment. Users can add external CSS and JavaScript resources, reuse other Pens, find libraries through CDNjs and import bare npm packages through its compiler. Pens can be embedded on other websites, and CodePen documents a REST API and other embed and prefill options. Pens and Projects are public by default. PRO users can make Pens and Collections private, but anyone with the shared URL can view them without logging in. The free plan includes unlimited public Pens and three files per Pen. Starter costs $8 a month, Developer $12 a month and Super $26 a month. CodePen does not offer a self-hosted version.