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Open the Developer Console. Get cracking.


Dev console is a debugger, not a code editor. It's useful for us to assist in developing web applications. It's far less useful for a non-engineer to tinker around with and make simple things.

You can't install npm packages. There's no simple UI to alter DOM like via drag and drop. Theres's no pre-built components (besides html) to easily create more advanced functionality. They have to write JS from scratch to add events. Managing more than 1 liners is a pain.


Exactly, that's what is weird about the whole premise of the article.


Well, a developer console with "import" support and some GUI frontend to npm would be something the author wants. Sounds not that hard, right?




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