Hey everyone, love the notebooks so far. Coming from a background of using Jupyter notebooks a lot, there are a few things that I’ve sorely missed as I’ve been trying to cobble together a few cool charts. If anyone has suggestions for alternatives for these I’d love to hear them.
console.log: My go-to for debugging a Javascript function that’s confusing to me is to console.log objects to sanity-check that they are what I think they are, but as far as I can tell there’s no obvious alternative for that. If you have a large block of code that you’re assigning to a name (like chart = { … }) which has a lot of locally defined functions, I would like the ability to inspect what’s going on inside of those functions each time they’re called. I can’t use a yield statement, and refactoring the code so the function exists outside the context seems like too much work.
tab-completion: this might just be a case of a feature not yet being built, but being able to quickly check what the member variables / functions of an object are saves to much time when I’m programming in a Jupyter notebook.
