Create interactive tutorials the easy way

JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

Tomek Sułkowski from TutorialKit joins Jerod to tell him all about the open source toolkit for creating awesome, interactive tutorials without having to code up the hard parts.

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Featuring:

• Tomek Sułkowski – Twitter, GitHub
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• Running Node natively in the browser with Eric Simons from StackBlitz
• TutorialKit
• TutorialKit on GitHub

TutorialKit in the wild

• Welcome to the Vite Plugin API tutorial
• Welcome to the Remult tutorial
• Welcome to Next Patterns

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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1. It's party time, y'all (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Fly.io (00:00:39)

https://fly.io/

3. Welcoming Tomek to the show (00:04:10)

4. Catching up with StackBlitz (00:05:18)

5. TutorialKit origin story (00:08:36)

6. On WebContainers (00:14:06)

7. StackBlitz required? (00:18:16)

8. Sponsor: WorkOS (00:19:44)

https://workos.com

9. Getting started (00:23:05)

10. Built-in templating (00:27:51)

11. Time to deploy (00:30:10)

12. Built with Astro (00:31:38)

13. Sponsor: Notion (00:33:27)

http://notion.com/changelog

14. Sharing their components (00:35:44)

15. Feature complete? (00:36:52)

16. Why build this? (00:40:52)

17. The demo tutorial (00:42:52)

18. In the wild (00:45:47)

19. Closing time (00:48:45)

20. Next up on the pod (00:49:44)