Introducing MeteorPad, the Meteor code playground

By Alice Yu

Meteor has a new playground! With MeteorPad, you can edit and run Meteor code inside your browser, see the results instantaneously, then easily save, fork, and share pads with others. If you want to jump right in, head over to MeteorPad.com and start hacking up the Leaderboard example.

MeteorPad was built by Mike Risse, with our support and collaboration. Mike is well-known in the Meteor community for his work on Meteor’s Velocity testing framework, as well as for buildingMadEye — a collaborative web editor — alongside his cofounder James Gill.

Mike drew inspiration from JSFiddle, CodePen, and MadEye itself. In addition to the HTML, JS, and CSS files you’d expect, MeteorPad also provides an in-browser terminal, as well as a GUI sidebar for changing which Meteor version and packages you’re using. Mike gave a full demo at Meteor Devshop, where he also discusses MeteorPad’s basic architecture and some of its many use cases.

We’re very excited to see newcomers and veterans alike using MeteorPad to try things, have fun, and share code. Please take MeteorPad for a spin and share your creations on our community forum and with your friends. If you’re posting to Twitter, Facebook, or Google+, tag your pads with#MeteorPad — I’d love to reshare them and see what you’re working on!