On: My first webapp (runs offline): A very simple notepad

[idlewan]

I am weirdly much more interested by the FileSaver.js and Blob.js (https://github.com/eligrey/FileSaver.js/ and https://github.com/eligrey/Blob.js) libraries than by the (small) app itself.

It does make the 'first webapp' very small, which is quite elegant.

[slashdotaccount → idlewan]

these libraries have given my app a life..

[idlewan → slashdotaccount]

And you did a great job using them.

A great amount of time in software development is spent searching for libraries and reading their docs, to avoid reinventing the wheel each time you are doing something pretty common ('saving a file').

Polyfill and shim libraries are making the lives of developers so much easier. The problem is usually to know about them. One year ago, I remember searching for Blob and File saving shims, without much success. Thus my fascination, by randomly bumping into what seems great ones.