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A single-page interactive JavaScript primer built by Jeremy Thomas (creator of Bulma) that lets you edit and run tiny code snippets (loops, arrays, if/else) inline in the browser. It's aimed at total beginners who want a 10-minute taste of JS syntax before committing to a real course.
The inline, edit-and-run snippet format is a genuinely nice way to remove the usual setup friction for absolute beginners. Presentation is clean and well-typeset, which tracks given the author's Bulma background. Code and content licensing are split sensibly (MIT for code, CC BY-NC-SA for the lesson text).
Dead since 2019 — no commits in over six years, built on now-ancient tooling (Jekyll, vendored bowser.js and clipboard.js 2.0, no bundler). The images and layout (Udemy logo, Patreon button, linked ebook covers) make clear this is really a funnel toward paid products, not a complete teaching resource on its own. The content license is non-commercial, so you can't reuse the actual lesson text even though the code is MIT. There's no real JS engine or app here to speak of — it's a handful of static snippet includes, not something you'd fork or extend.
We read the README, the directory tree and a key source file in October 2026. Nobody pays to be listed. How we judge →