About this episode
This episode discusses the concept of Blocks in CodePen 2.0 and how they relate to code processing.
With CodePen 2.0, we've got a new word we're using: Blocks. A way to think about Blocks is anything that processes code. They are added as steps to the CodePen Compiler as needed. For example, TypeScript is a block, because it processes files in the TypeScript syntax into JavaScript files. But something like Lodash is not a block. Lodash is a package from npm (which we also handle, but that's a topic for another podcast). Lodash doesn't process code, it's just a library that is linked up or bundled. Time Jumps
People in this episode
Host: CodePen Blog
Topics covered
- CodePen
- Blocks
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- Lodash
- Code Processing
Keywords
- CodePen
- Blocks
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- Lodash
- npm
- code processing
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: CodePen, npm
Products: TypeScript, Lodash
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