What is CodePen?

by Richa Verma Content Writer

What is CodePen?

Like any other social media like Facebook, Twiter, etc where people from all around the world interact with each other. CodePen is a social media or online platform for web developers where they can showcase their skills in front-end languages like HTML, CSS and javascript. It is also an open source learning environment where people can also learn to code. CodePen is also a great platform for a WordPress developer to test their codes when designing a custom website.

In CodePen, web developers can play with the codes on the browser and test it online. You can get a live review of syntax and code change. You can also share your code and learn more from the demo. Let's start with CodePen first, you need to create pens that are basically set of code in HTML, CSS and Javascript. Then you can display it in your account to get feedbacks.

Features –

CSS Option – with Codeen you can write CSS codes faster. You can simply click the radio button to add Normalize.css or Reset.css. You can use prefix-free or auto-prefixes and also don’t need to link an external file.
Tags and collection – With CodePen you can add tags so the search engine can find it. For any tag, there are many design code that you can get inspiration from.
Frontend languages - For HTML, you can use HAML, Markdown, Slim, Jade. For CSS, you can use Sass and SCSS, Less and Stylus. For JavaScript, you can select CoffeeScript or LiveScript.
Blogging – CodePen has added a new feature of blogging where you can write and share your code so everyone can read and comment just like any other blogs.
Emmet and Vim Binding – It helps you in smooth and faster development of codes. Emmet is the toolkit that keeps the project moving. Vim Key is the command line text editor and Binding means keyboard commands that so things specified in the Vim key editor.

For any web designing company in Faridabad, it is necessary to test their codes before implementing them on the websites. CodePen provides them that platform.