If GitHub Gists could run
And AWS Lambda were fun
Val Town is a social website to write and deploy TypeScript. Build APIs and schedule functions from your browser.
Get startedCron jobs
Schedule any function in one click. Use the full power of cron syntax or a simple interval to run vals every hour, at a particular time of day, or whatever you can dream up.
stevekrouse/trackIphoneTradein
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import cheerio from "npm:cheerio@1.0.0-rc.12";
export const trackIphoneTradein = (async () => {
const page = await fetch(
"https://www.apple.com/shop/" +
"browse/overlay/tradein_landing/iphone_values",
).then((r) => r.text());
const $ = cheerio.load(page);
const rows = $("tr").map((row, elem) => {
const [name, val] = $(elem)
.find("td")
.map((idx, elem) => $(elem).text())
.toArray();
return { name, val };
}).toArray().filter((row) => row.name && row.val);
stevekrouse.iphoneTradeInValues.push({
date: new Date().toISOString(),
rows,
});
return rows;
});
Create APIs
Respond to HTTP requests, build websites, APIs, and more with Request & Response objects. Compatible with modern web frameworks like Hono and itty-router. Support for building HTML with JSX syntax.
tmcw/endpoint
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/** @jsxImportSource npm:hono/jsx */
import { Hono } from "npm:hono@3.8.1";
import {
jsxRenderer,
useRequestContext
} from "npm:hono@3.8.1/jsx-renderer";
export const endpoint = (req: Request) => {
const app = new Hono();
app.get("/", (c) =>
c.render(<div>Hello, world!</div>));
return app.fetch(req);
};
https://tmcw-endpoint.web.val.run
Hello, world!
Email yourself
Send yourself an email as easily as you log to the console.
stevekrouse/umbrellaReminder
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import { email } from "https://v3.module.town/v/std/email?v=7";
import { fetchJSON } from "https://v3.module.town/v/stevekrouse/fetchJSON";
import { umbrellaNeeded } from "https://v3.module.town/v/stevekrouse/umbrellaNeeded";
export const umbrellaReminder = async () => {
if (await umbrellaNeeded("brooklyn")) {
await email({
subject: "☔️ Carry an umbrella today!"
});
}
};
From:notifications@val.town
To:me@gmail.com
Subject: ☔️ Carry an umbrella today!
This is an email notification from Val Town: you can customize everything about it.
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Val Town isn't just a place to write code: it's a community to share ideas and build on each other’s inspiration.
CommentsLikesForksCommunity Discord
stevekrouse/gettingStarted
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export const myFirstFunction = (a, b) => {
return a + b;
};
10 likes
2 new comments
Import from npm and deno
Thousands of NPM modules are supported, along with Deno modules. No installation required - just import and it's there.
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How to Val
Kind words
It's been a while since I've seen something as neat at val.town It's serverless functions meets myspace? You have to try it. Just start coding - nothing gets in your way. variables persist, great for iOT, cron jobs, npm support...
Wes Bos
Syntax.fm host, on TwitterA super power of val.town is that the relative terseness of a val gives excellent API usage examples that are easy to grok. Want to learn atproto? There's a val for that. With a large enough corpus, it'll be the go to place for API examples.
Justin Bennett
Engineer @ Oxide, DevtoolsFM host, on TwitterThis is 🔥
pomdtr
on DiscordI'm mind-blown by http://val.town it's one of those products I can't believe didn't exist before
0xferruccio
on Twitteryeah! working on replacing the backend of a personal project with a simple val related solution ive been waiting for something like valtown for building personal projects without getting bogged down in setting up toolchains and deploying and stuff
omgwtfbrblolttyl
on DiscordA practical middle option for not going too enterprisey (Lambda) or too consumer (zapier).
Ashik Ahmed
on Twitter@astrodotbuild 🤝 @ValDotTown... Really excited about Val's potential for persisted interaction on static sites!
Nate Moore
Astro co-creator on Twitter‘this is awesome’ ‘it's so cool’ ‘it's so neat’ - what @wesbos thinks about @ValDotTown from our episode with @stevekrouse
Syntax
on TwitterWhat an absolute gem of a product! 💎 Amazing job @stevekrouse. I have wanted something like this ( @zapier for Javascript programmers - ish) for a LONG time.
Carl Von Blixen
on TwitterI first setup a cloudflare worker email broker, but for some reason the worker was taking so long that my webhook was timing out, then I found val.town, it's such an amazing tool
infinitemap
on Discordval.town is bringing code alive, one () => {} at a time. 🔥
Kyle Geske
on TwitterVal town is putting the fun back into coding. You can focus on the fun parts of just making magic happen without all the admin
Jack Bridger
on Product HuntVal Town is a social website to write and run code.
Vals are small JavaScript or TypeScript snippets of code, written in the browser and run on our servers. Create scheduled functions, email yourself, and persist small pieces of data — all from the browser.