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Dev tools · November 10, 2021

Code Box

A desktop app, inspired by CodePen and JSFiddle

Code Box launched on November 10, 2021 with 78 votes, #748 of 2,925 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 4 years on.

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What it does

CodeBox is a coding environment with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript editors with a live preview panel to show what the code would look like in the browser. It's cool because it features the same editor used in VS Code and has instant reload!

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