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Aditya R.
AR
Aditya R.
Software Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"It's an amazing platform for developers."
4.5/5
What do you like best about CodePen?

Codepen provides the best and Realtime IDE where developers play with code without having any complexity. Code sharing is very easy with the realtime preview there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CodePen?

While sometimes, Rendering animated and hovering takes time to load and when users import some code they can't run it directly in the local system. Needs some modification, so must provide a good algorithm that makes it runnable on the local system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PRANJUL C.
PC
PRANJUL C.
Student
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Best Online Code Editor for Web Development"
5/5
What do you like best about CodePen?

Codepen's User-Interface is very simple for any beginner who wants to practice web development or wants to share their code can easily share their code. There are millions of Users from which we get help in our code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CodePen?

We can't use any external links in the free plan. We can't directly upload on Github. It should have an option to push the code directly on GitHub. Its auto-suggestion is not as good as offline editors like VS Code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JB
Jamal B.
Frontend web development
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Very good for web development"
3.5/5
What do you like best about CodePen?

It has all the features I need such as live code ide Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CodePen?

You can't make folders etc in the code so no multi page work Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

QL
Quante L.
Frontend for
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Codepen is very goood"
5/5
What do you like best about CodePen?

Easy online access to the live code editor Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CodePen?

Threre is nothing I really dislike it's all amazing stuff Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ABHAY G.
AG
ABHAY G.
F
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Real-time Web simulator that makes coding easy"
4.5/5
What do you like best about CodePen?

The best feature I find about good and its support to auto completion and real time updation of the preview which makes that development super fast. The another feature i like is profile section for each developer where we can connect and showcase our work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CodePen?

As a being a text editor it does not allow the extensions and using snippets on its text editor it lags and too much behind other text editors present either online or offline. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Khawaja A.
KA
Khawaja A.
Senior Software Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Great Online Code Editor"
4/5
What do you like best about CodePen?

Codepen makes it so easy to code and test different solutions on the go, I find it so amazing that I can code anytime anywhere. You can easily log in and open the Codepen website and test your code and also share it as well, everything on the go. I have been using it to collaborate with my team now and it has increased productivity multiple times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CodePen?

There is not much to dislike but I would like CodePen to improve its UI. They can do so much with the concept they have but I think they have not yet improvised that much from the UI perspective. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Devinder Singh G.
DG
Devinder Singh G.
Group Lead
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Best online code editor"
4/5
What do you like best about CodePen?

Codepen makes me to code without limitations, amazing fact that all I need to do is to login and start coding on Codepen website also this provides me the facility to test the different solutions and which increases productivity Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CodePen?

I love the Codepen but if Codepen works on to make user interface bit to intract Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Education Management
UE
Verified User in Education Management
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Great Community, User Friendly and Editor syntax highlighting"
4.5/5
What do you like best about CodePen?

Best thing is code pen's community there are large number of frontend code snippets availiable. For the editor it is easily integrable in many site and easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CodePen?

Some times convertinf scss,etc to css is not syntactically correct. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sumit C.
SC
Sumit C.
Analyst-Global Test Factory
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Outstanding editor"
5/5
What do you like best about CodePen?

It gives me ready to use component such as hamburger, navigation, etc. Also I can make my component and anyone can see it and use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CodePen?

While creating component space requirements is more as of now it is less. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ashvin C.
AC
Ashvin C.
Senior Software Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Very good online editor for the front end developers"
4/5
What do you like best about CodePen?

The thing which I liked best about codepen is that you can use it online without installing anything on your system. It helps us too much when we need to run a simple code snippet just to check if it is working properly or not. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CodePen?

Two things which I dislike about codepen, one is Pro (premium) version required to keep work private and use external links properly, and second is many tools but not all are useful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Dhananjay P.
DP
Dhananjay Patel
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Last activity over 3 years ago

Is there any way to connect Github account to CodePen and uploads the pen directly?

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