CodePen 2.0

Noting perhaps my largest personal career accomplishment, which is launching CodePen 2.0. Far more work, believe it or not, than the entire creation of the original CodePen. This isn’t the place to describe every detail of what we did and why we did it. If you’re interested, perhaps our Why 2.0? podcast or the What’s New? page. Instead, a couple of stories from the first week of launch. I was working on a demo with someone I’ve never met before. It started on their (classic) Pen. They needed to import some other JavaScript, so they used 3 Pens and pulled in the JavaScript from the other two into the main demo. They also needed an npm package. I forked the Pen and invited them as a co-editor, so we could both work on it together anytime. I moved the JavaScript into files on the main Pen, as that’s much easier to work with. The npm package is in the package.json file for easy version management. We both cleaned it up to our liking. The Keyframers (David and Shaw) got back together and…