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Life & fun · May 4, 2011

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QEDServer: A standalone playground for JS and AJAX

QEDServer: A standalone playground for JS and AJAX launched on May 4, 2011 with 22 votes, #29 of 217 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 15 years on.

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QEDServer is a standalone playground designed to help developers test client-side JavaScript and AJAX libraries without building a backend. It eliminates the need to write server code, set up databases, or deploy applications, allowing developers to focus on experimenting with new client-side frameworks. The tool comes pre-configured with a development environment and dummy data, making it ideal for developers who want to quickly prototype and test rich client-side applications.

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You've just come across a great new client-side library that makes building richer client-side apps a breeze. It has support for client-side storage, but you're really interested in using this with an existing server-side web application, so you decide to try it out. Then you realize that to test everything, you need a backend. That means you need to write some server side code, set up a database, and you need to deploy the thing on a web server so that all the AJAX requests work right. And of course, you need to populate that database with dummy data. That's a lot of work just to try out a new framework! QEDServer solves those pesky problems for you so you can focus on sharpening your…from qedserver.napcs.com

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