Klipse, a new way of blogging

Mis a jours le 31 Aug 2021 à 13:00 · 327 mots · Lecture en 2 minutes blogging klipse programming

For a modern tech blogging framework, a live coding experience is quasi necessary.

Klipse is a JavaScript plugin for embedding interactive code snippets in tech blogs.

To make this easy, you add a small library to your blog front end dependency, and voilà, you have your <code></code> live executing in the browser. As a bonus, your code can no be edited directly in the <code></code> tags.

Go check out this blog post if you want to have more information about Klipse!

Klipsify your blogging framework

To integrate the klipse plugin on a blog, you have to follow 3 simple steps.

  1. Make sure you have <!DOCTYPE html> at the top of your html file and <meta charset="utf-8"> right after your <head> (It is required to display properly elements used by Klipse.)

  2. Add css and custom configuration somewhere in the page (it could be in the <head> or in the <body>) before the <script> element of step #3. The selector keys are per language (you’ll find in GitHub a list of supported languages) and the value are the CSS selector of the elements that you want to klipsify.

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://storage.googleapis.com/app.klipse.tech/css/codemirror.css">

<script>
    window.klipse_settings = {
        selector_golang: '.language-klipse-eval-js', // css selector for the html elements you want to klipsify
    };
</script>
  1. Add the JavaScript tag at the end of the body tag :
<!-- ... -->
<body>
    <!-- ... -->
    <script src="https://storage.googleapis.com/app.klipse.tech/plugin_prod/js/klipse_plugin.min.js"></script>
</body>

Write some code

Now that you have installed Klipse on your blog, it remains to add some code to a blog post.

Add this code snippet to try it on:

import "fmt"

func main() {
  fmt.Println("Hello World! Klipse is so much fun !")
}

As you can see, this code is now live and interactive.

Feel free to modify it to your own liking!

Conclusion

Live and interactive coding was a long dream of mine when creating this blog.

Klipse made this dream super easy to integrate on my blog!

This post was inspired by @viebel.

Image de l'auteur Tom Moulard

L'auteur:  Tom Moulard

Depuis mon enfance, je suis captivé par les articles de science et de technologie. Un jour, j'ai décidé de faire partie de ce monde : j'ai pris ma calculatrice programmable (une TI-82 stat).... La suite, sur mon site

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