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Alex Martelli and other commenters disparage Prototype and jQuery, recommending Dojo instead. Also the book "Javascript: The Good Parts" by Douglas Crockford

Pastebins have become an important part of sharing code with colleagues. Sites such as Pastebin & Pastie.org are extremely popular because they're easy to use and very effective in letting people compare notes on source code, especially in a support setting.

Remy Sharp wanted to take the pastebin concept a step further, past the static posting of code. His idea, which he tossed around for 6 months, finally came to fruition in the form of JS Bin, a new pastebin site with a twist:

JS Bin is a form of paste bin, but with a twist. It allows you to also include the HTML and CSS to provide context to your pasty. As such, it means you can actually run the JavaScript and pass this on to a colleague to help to debug.

This is a great idea as it lets you troubleshoot your code while seeing immediate results. The feature list is well thought out as well.

• Save private snippet
• Remote Ajax debugging
• Snippet URLs run entirely on their own (i.e. without the JS Bin framework around them)
• Support to quickly inject major JS libraries including jQuery, jQuery UI, Prototype, Scriptaculous, Dojo, MooTools & YUI
• Saves state within the open window (i.e. refresh and the code doesn't reset)

The ability to inject many of the popular JavaScript libraries is especially important and I would highly recommend individual project teams to contact Remy directly to have their libs included.

To give this a run, I'd suggest going to the JS Bin site and putting it through its paces. In addition, Remy has produced two videos which go into detail on how to leverage JS Bin:

• JS Bin Video Introduction
• Ajax Debugging