420: What are Blocks?

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Mar 11, 20260:00Technology

With CodePen 2.0, we've got a new word we're using: Blocks . A way to think about Blocks is anything that processes code. They are added as steps to the CodePen Compiler as needed. For example, TypeScript is a block, bec...

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