Today we’re launching Observable 2.0 with a bold new vision: an open-source static site generator for building fast, beautiful data apps, dashboards, and reports. Read the announcement from founder Mike Bostock . The cornerstone of Observable 2.0 is Observable Framework. With Framework, you can: W…

Yup. It needs an http server, but does not need an app server. I guess more precise would be that you need a static web server instead of a dynamic web server as described here .

FWIW it worked as expected on GH Pages for me: Built Site: Observable Framework Repo (with GH Action to build and publish sources on push): GitHub - GordonSmith/framework: A static site generator for data apps, dashboards, reports, and more

Oh that’s interesting! Not sure why it didn’t work for me, will check your repo tomorrow - thanks! FWIW It worked well when deployed as static site on Digital ocean; the only issue I saw was that the links between pages need to include a “.html” for the pages to be loaded correctly.

OK using Github actions made the trick - thanks so much @GordonSmith !

This is great! It will simplify a process we have been putting in place to create dashboards. I have created a variety of Observable Notebooks using plot - are they compatible with the framework - i.e. exporting…? I want to get my dev team looking at the framework so I can focus on the data, analysi…

[image] mferro64: I have created a variety of Observable Notebooks using plot - are they compatible with the framework - i.e. exporting…? The Framework CLI supports a convert command for downloading an Observable notebook and converting it to Markdown, e.g., observable convert @d3/bar-chart …

Hi @erdirstats ! I’m a big fan of both Quarto (I still use it for my personal website, and as a “lab notebook” for data exploration, modeling, & stats projects) and Observable Framework! A few things I am especially excited about in Observable Framework: Data loaders (in R, Python, or anything els…

@mbostock When I copy and run your observable create command, I get the following error: observable: unknown command 'convert'. See 'observable help'. I tried to ensure that my observable command line is up to date by running npm update observable but that did not fix the problem.

It’s because you have an old version of Framework installed. You need to upgrade @observablehq/framework not observable (the package name not the command name). You may also need to upgrade your global install depending on how you’re running it. (And if you’re using the Early Access version we gave …

[image] mbostock: It’s because you have an old version of Framework installed. Yes, I’m sure you’re right. Note that the command observable version returns 0.0.50. I can’t seem to figure out the magic incantation to update it,though. I’ve tried npm upgrade @observablehq/framework and sudo…

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Not sure if this is what you mean by browser deployment, but you might want to check out these devcontainers: Observable Framework in-browser development starter kits (Node, Python).

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