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Can someone explain glitch.com to me. I looked at the website and I don't have a clue what it does or why it would be useful? It looks like some meme game.


From a developer perspective, Glitch is a full-stack coding environment that lives in the browser and allows realtime simultaneous code editing with automatic instant deployment. You can run any stack, but we've optimized for easily deploying Node apps, and any app you see on the site, you can "remix" — which clones the entire stack of that app and gives you your own, instantly deployed, copy of the app. The code editor does a lot of smart things like having a super-friendly revision tracking system (called "Rewind") that lets you just slide back a timeline slider if you want to go back to a past commit, but under the hood, it's just regular git.

There's also a social network built around those apps, so you can make collections of apps you want to use, or projects you want to refer to for your own work. And we're working to build a Teams product so you can use all those code collaboration features at work and integrated with your other tools.

Finally, there's a capability that's kind of complementary to what Stack Overflow does, which is that you can "raise your hand" (click on the emoji of the person with their hand raised) right in the code editor in Glitch, and it'll allow people to come in and help you with your code in realtime. There's more to it, but that's what it does today.


Thank you.


glitch.com is like jsfiddle.net on steroids. You get multiple files and a node based server to test with. With jsfiddle you just get one page. with glitch you can build an entire site both front end and back end.




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