Recruiting for a software role? Building a product? Have a repetitive workflow that should probably be code? I’m interested.
Or, if the conversation is about Formula One, you already have my attention.
Abhinav Mishra
BACKEND-LEANING SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Snippad is a lightweight, browser-based online IDE designed for quickly writing, executing, and managing code without requiring a local development environment. It provides a familiar code-editor experience directly inside the browser and supports multiple programming languages, making it useful for experimenting with snippets, testing solutions, practicing programming, or running small pieces of code from any device.
Running code normally requires users to have the appropriate compiler, interpreter, runtime, editor, and development environment configured locally. This can introduce unnecessary setup when someone simply wants to test an algorithm, verify a small code snippet, or experiment with another programming language. Snippad removes that setup overhead by providing one browser-based environment where users can write code, provide custom input, execute it remotely, and inspect the resulting output. It also keeps commonly used snippets accessible through browser storage, making it useful as a simple personal coding playground.
Users get a modern code editor with syntax highlighting and fullscreen support, along with the ability to switch between C++, Python, Java, and JavaScript. Code can be executed directly from the browser through the Judge0 execution API, with support for custom standard input and generated output. Snippad also includes multiple editor themes, the ability to upload and download source files and input/output files, and local playground storage for saving multiple snippets without requiring an account. The interface is responsive, allowing the playground to remain usable across different screen sizes.
Frontend: React.js for building the application interface, CodeMirror for the code-editing experience and syntax highlighting, and Styled Components for component-level styling and responsive layouts.
Code Execution: Judge0 CE API is used as the remote execution engine for compiling and running programs in multiple languages, accessed through RapidAPI.
Networking: Axios handles communication with external APIs.
Routing: React Router manages navigation within the application.
Deployment: The frontend is deployed on Vercel.
Snippad was not created because of a particular event, competition, or personal problem. It started primarily as a practical development project centered around building an online coding environment and understanding how browser-based editors interact with remote code-execution services.
Developing it involved working with embedded code editors, asynchronous API-driven execution, handling standard input and output, supporting different programming languages, managing files in the browser, and preserving user data locally.
As a result, the project served as a hands-on exploration of how online IDEs and code playgrounds work behind the scenes.