Question

Let’s say we created a small widget or web app. or just a plugin – and we want to distribute it to the public. (JS, jQuery…)
…and we have no server- or we are afraid it will close one day.
…and we’d like to provide that script like an url-to-script to be included into a script tag.
Like we do with the jQ library — Is there any provider that allows us to store codes and generates a livetime url to it?? That we can mantain, change or fix it anytime without the need to inform all users?
Have Google something like that?
Or am I dreaming?

Answer 1

You can upload on github. It’s free for open-source projects, and you can even link directly to the repo’s master branch; example:

https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSON-js/raw/master/json_parse.js

(There are good reasons not to do that as a general rule — the master branch could get a breaking change committed to it, for example — but it’s there if you need it.)