Unlock the Power of Interactive Code Examples on Your Blog

What is Sandpack?

Sandpack is an open-source tool that enables you to create and display live coding samples. It’s the same in-browser bundler that powers CodeSandbox, and it’s gaining popularity fast. With Sandpack, you can create a code editor experience, live preview code, and support all major JavaScript frameworks.

Getting Started with Sandpack

To start building our interactive blog, we’ll need to create a React application using Vite. We’ll then install the sandpack-react package and configure it to work with our app.

npm install sandpack-react

Customizing the Sandpack Editor

Sandpack accepts various props for customizing the editor. We can specify the template, theme, and options to tailor the experience to our needs. For example, we can choose from several predefined templates, such as:

• “vanilla”
• “react”
• “vue”

We can also change the theme to:

• “light”
• “dark”
• “sandpack-dark”

<Sandpack
  template="react"
  theme="dark"
  options={{
    showLineNumbers: true,
    showTabs: true,
  }}
/>

Building Our Blog

To build our blog, we’ll use MDX, a markdown language that allows us to use JSX. We’ll cover the following steps:

1. Installing packages and dependencies
2. Configuring the MDX plugins
3. Structuring our project folder
4. Adding content to our React blog
5. Writing our posts in MDX

npm install mdx

The Result

With Sandpack and MDX, we can create a blog that showcases interactive code examples. Our readers can edit and run the code directly in the browser, making it a more engaging and immersive experience.

Try it out for yourself and see the power of interactive code examples on your blog!

Learn more about customizing your code samples on Sandpack’s official website.