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I'm looking for a good sandbox for testing and playing with
those languages online.

Any suggestions?

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127.0.0.1 - all these are client side things, you can do them on your own computer without even running a http service. –  TZHX Apr 30 '11 at 20:08
 
@TZHX - of course you can. But there is a point to doing it online rather than local. I.e. so you can easily show other people working code snippits on forums (I.e. Stack Overflow). –  asgeo1 Apr 30 '11 at 23:51
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@asgeo1 If you have code to post on SO, please add it to the posts directly instead of linking to another site. That way if the other site ever goes down, the code is still a part of the question or the answer and there is no loss of information. –  Anna Lear♦ May 1 '11 at 6:24

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Try jsFiddle, I think that's what you're looking for. It supports various JS frameworks too.

online Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that is hosted in a browser allowing users to create and execute code written in JavaScript (using one of the various JavaScript frameworks, or no framework), HTML, and CSS. It has features enabling users to learn and demonstrate how JavaScript, HTML, and CSS work together, and is often used to provide live examples of problems being encountered...

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Just do it on your local box. Save HTML, JS, and CSS files to your hard drive and use "open file" from a web browser.

Piece of cake.

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If you do this properly, you should also get good habits regarding file organization, backups, version control and the lot. This is what I did, and I am really happy with how everything has come out. This way you'll also be able to save everything, and keep it for later. –  Tikhon Jelvis May 1 '11 at 9:11
 
@Stargazer712 he tak about playing with those online.. So local box is not what he is looking for .. –  Geek Feb 26 at 12:59
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You can also try jsDo.it.

In general, jsDo allows you to;

  • write HTML, CSS and JS in different panes.
  • add various JS frameworks.
  • set a Licence for the code that you have written.
  • fork a code from another person. (like github)
  • use more simple interface.
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JS Bin is not as robust as jsFiddle, but you may also find it useful.
Update: JS Fiddle may be more ubiquitous, but as an editor JS Bin has made real improvements.

jsbin.com

CODEPEN is a new entry into this space, with windows for CSS, JS, and HTML editing.

http://codepen.io/pen/

And yet another entry in this space is livecoding.

And another is Plunker.

http://plnkr.co/

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