Codesandbox: Good environment for Teaching Javascript to Kids

technotes
Apr 19, 2021

I want to teach kids a useful programming language, like Javascript so they can build a website and deploy it to show case their work. I don’t want them to struggle with dev environment setups. Codesandbox seems the right tool for this.

https://codesandbox.io/s/

Select project template like “React”

You will end up in a screen like this

Type something into the code screen, change “Hello” to “World” and you will see the browser window changes as you type.

If you want to save your work, or do something fancier, you need to Create an Account and Sign in.

Deployment

Click the “rocket” icon on the left

Click “Deploy to Netlify”, you won’t need to create an account. The deployment process takes a couple of minutes

Click “Open Netlify Site” to go to the public site.

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