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Dev tools · December 28, 2015

30 Days, 30 Demos

This year I decided to try #codevember, a challenge to write a creative experiment for every day of November. This post is a follow-up (and brain-dump) exploring some of the daily demos and lessons learned. You can see all the experiments here:... | Matt DesLauriers | creative developer

30 Days, 30 Demos launched on December 28, 2015 with 5 votes and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

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This year I decided to try #codevember , a challenge to write a creative experiment for every day of November. This post is a follow-up (and brain-dump) exploring some of the daily demos and lessons learned. The #codevember challenge calls for CodePen submissions, but I find prototyping much faster with a dedicated development server ( budo ) and a wide selection of node modules at my fingertips. After setting up a build/dev script, I was able to iterate quickly with babel for ES2015 and installify to auto-install npm modules as I coded. To inline GLSL snippets, I used glslify . In the end, the project racked up over 160 direct dependencies . If nothing else, it is a testament to the ease…from mattdesl.svbtle.com

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