Show HN: TxtFiddle – JavaScript playground for text manipulation tasks
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#2why not just use jsfiddle?
Re: Show HN: TxtFiddle – JavaScript playground for text manipulation tasks
#3why not just use jsfiddle?
The main reason is ease of use. Of course, you can use JSFiddle to create an HTML page with a textarea field and a button that triggers your code and outputs the result to the console or somewhere else. But that's a lot of overhead for a simple text editing task.
TxtFiddle is specifically built for text manipulation tasks and reduces the amount of code you have to write to a minimum. There's also a (growing) list of templates that you can choose from (see the "New" menu). Another differentiating feature is the ability to abort a running script (i.e., in the case of an accidental infinite loop).
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#4so this is basically eval('var input = inputElement.innerText;' + jsElement.innerText)
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#5so this is basically eval('var input = inputElement.innerText;' + jsElement.innerText)
Basically, yes. In practice, there's a bit more to it. The user code is wrapped into an "async function(input)" (so you can use async/await) and run inside a worker inside a sandboxed iframe (for security reasons and for being able to stop the execution). There's also some additional code for catching errors and parsing the error stack.
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#6nice. very similar to CyberChef[1] except it allows custom JS code.
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#7I have been just clicking on the "New" menu. It was not clear to me that I should mouse over and wait.
There are many interesting transformations such as "Generate SQL INSERT INTO statement from CSV" or "Generate ASCII table from CSV/TSV". They could be more prominent. How about moving them from "New" into "Library" section?
Re: Show HN: TxtFiddle – JavaScript playground for text manipulation tasks
#8I have been just clicking on the "New" menu. It was not clear to me that I should mouse over and wait. There are many interesting transformations such as "Generate SQL INSERT INTO statement from CSV" or "Generate ASCII table from CSV/TSV". They could be more prominent. How about moving them from "New" into "Library" section?
Thank you for the input. I have now added a separate "Templates" menu item.