Better Ways to Talk About Code: Announcing Rich Embeddable Blocks

Comments

[Phil Nash]

This is cool! How are you pre-rendering the Twitter and GitHub embeds?

[Ben Halpern]

It was basically a matter of simply modeling out these objects in our app and mimicking the CSS. The devil is in the details and we'll write a few posts on the implementation, but the process is pretty simple. There are some small tradeoffs for each of these, but so many benefits. Since the GitHub issues can be edited, one key is deciding how and how often to check for changes.

[Phil Nash]

I look forward to reading about the implementation!

[Beld Pro]

I was pretty impressed by the GitHub comment. You really nailed you 👏 nice!

[Mr Bee]

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[Beld Pro]

Nice addition Ben! Can't wait for gists so the flow becomes similar to medium :))

[Jose Gonzalez]

Sweet updates. I'm finding dev.to's editor to be far superior to anything I've tried (e.g. Ghost, Medium). It's very dev friendly.

Thank you for making it better!!

[Ben Halpern]

Thanks! We still have more work to really make it as nice as we'd like, but I'm glad folks enjoy the dev-friendly approach.

[Finnian Anderson]

Uhm... Ben, I think you broke it better. On My Machine, the syntax blocks are actually being turned into embeds. It was not doing this the last time I read this post.

[Ben Halpern]

Eeep, thanks for the heads up!

[Ben Halpern]

Fixed!

[Finnian Anderson]

Nice, thanks!

[Frederik 👨‍💻➡️🌐 Creemers]

I love the feature, but I just spent 15 minutes looking for this blog post, because I didn't see it documented anywhere. Or maybe I'm just bad at finding things :)

[Rob Race]

👍🏻

[Keaton Burleson]

This is really cool and has made me super excited about when you guys open source the site!

[rainteller]

Awesome feature :))

[Pavneet Singh Saund]

Really nice! Looking forward to test it! 😁👍🏽