420: What are Blocks?

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, because it processes files in the TypeScript syntax into JavaScript files. But something like Lodash is not a block. Lodash is a package from npm (which we also handle , but that's a topic for another podcast). Lodash doesn't process code, it's just a library that is linked up or bundled. Time Jumps

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