A boilerplate for creating JavaScript tryouts and small projects quickly

A few days ago I was preparing a presentation to talk about useful things in JavaScript that I learned throughout my career, that could help other developers improve their code and logic.

It was a presentation full of code samples and live coding, so I created a project with some features like Hot Reload, Babel and Prettier, to make it easy for me to create some JavaScript code, using modern features of the language and watching the changes automatically update in the browser without the need to refresh the page.

I realized that whenever I need to start a JavaScript tryout, a small project or a presentation with code samples, I end up creating the same setup, with the same features. So I decided to create a boilerplate with everything I need to run JavaScript code for this type of project, without having to worry about configuration stuff.

The boilerplate is very small and comes with these cool features:

• 🔥 Hot Module Replacement for updating modules without needing a page refresh
• 🐠 Babel for modern JavaScript support
• ✨ Prettier for code formatting

You can find the boilerplate at github.com/maplessmann/js-playground.

Also, feel free to contribute!

❤️ Open source