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by Xylakant 2428 days ago
> It was implemented as an open-source program, so half of the crowd are asking for it to be a web service for usability and convenience and aesthetics

I’ll prefer that any time of day. At least, this way someone can easily turn it into a web service. It generates HTML afaics.

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A good number of github projects I find say "Install with npm install foo, or try it out online [here]"

The online version can host the exact same code from git master. For many projects, no hosting is even required, because the whole thing can run in a codepen-like playground.