Fog Creek is a small company with a big name. We've been, over the past 18 years, building tools to help developers do their best work. We helped pioneering bug tracking with FogBugz (now Manuscript), co-created Stack Overflow, invented Trello, and are now building one of the friendliest dev communities and coolest editors, Glitch!
We've spent the last year enhancing the Node development experience for users of all levels of developer backgrounds through our community, editor and education materials.
This means Glitch embeds are fully deployed, running applications that can have one or many files and show off both ends of an application, client and server. This is is great for tutorials and also facilitating the passing of server side programming knowledge onto front-end developers!
Here is hello-express, one of the Glitch.com starter apps that users remix to start their new apps.
All of the best docs have working code to copy and paste, and Glitch takes that to the next level with remixing - when a user edits the code in an embed, a copy is made and deployed for them within seconds. And remixes are secure - .env token values and the .data folder are not remixed.
There are no proprietary protocols, special languages, or set of commands–Glitch apps run anywhere a Node server exists. You can export Glitch apps to Github or download a zipped folder of the app.
By the way, we've also teamed up with mouse.org and other education initiatives and bootcamps, bringing future Node developers to the community.
And we commit to current free features remaining free. But to show our appreciation and support for the Nodejs community, we will offer future paid features to the team for free. One of those features, Glitch for Teams, will make managing and maintaining the organization's apps even easier.
For questions and support, feel free to contact Jenn Schiffer, Community Engineer (jenn@glitch.com). We also have an active support forum and hand-raising features built within the editor! We always say "we don't learn alone," and we are excited to help the Nodejs website team make sure the rest of the community never feels alone when starting out with Node!