The Origami language gives web creators functions for making parts of web sites in the same way a spreadsheet offers functions for crunching numbers: give a function some input, get something useful back.

Case in point: every so often I want a web page to show a screenshot of another web page. Puppeteer is great for that but cumbersome to set up, so I made screenshot functions: give them HTML or a URL, get back an image.

I used this to make a new Examples page on the Origami docs site. A build script uses the screenshot function to take pictures of each sample URL, producing a virtual folder of images that get saved as real images for deployment. This will make it easy to add new samples or update the screenshots as the sample sites evolve.