Hi. Can I run a server for hosting Observable notebooks similar to a Jupyter server? Sorry if the answer is obvious somewhere – I couldn’t find it. Thanks! – Aaron Watters

We may offer some on-premise (self-hosted) enterprise solution in the future, but our current focus is on developing cloud-hosted private collaboration for teams.

Hey @mbostock , awesome work. I really would like to use this internally in my company - we have private code and multiple people working on the same visualizations at the same time. Is this something that is on the timeline? or should we just continue writing d3+git for the time being …

I would like to second the idea that internal hosting is the only option for many companies. I first ran into this tool today while following a trail via TensorFlow.js. I believe there would bean opportunity for teams to develop notebooks using Observable in-house, if this were supported. For many c…

I actually really resonate with what claude is saying. The power of ipython/jupyter was: use your own data host is on your machine or on your internal private network work offline it’s open source I expect that devs can already build up with what’s out there a very simple editor for observable. …

hear hear! also, I’d like to see this happen too! [image] Observable Electron app idea wait, so observablehq notebook-runtime is open source? I just hit your repos on github. So hypothetically speaking one could create an Electron app wrapper for a standalone? I wonder…

I thought this was related. Link to running observable headless by @jflatow : [image] Run your notebooks on a server without you Ha, ok! Very rudimentary - but this is the basic idea: https://github.com/jflatow/observer

Chiming in late here, I’d love to be able to use Observable with my team at Stitch Fix, but it’s a non-starter unless it’s on-prem. We’d be happy to pay for that privilege.

It’s a shame there isn’t an offline offering. Without it, it’s unlikely observable will gain as much adoption as Jupyter. That adoption could eventually drive the cloud-based tool adoption.

I believe the goal is to try and keep the community in one place (here) from a data analytics and and visualization perspective, while providing the runtime + parser as an open source project for folks who want to host notebooks elsewhere. There are some “offline” and “interpreter” editors availabl…

Honestly considering there is so much content on observablehq the community will never switch from observablehq, but allowing you to make your own server would probably make it way way more popular. Besides sometimes you just don’t have internet connection!!

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I thought this was related. Link to running observable headless by @jflatow :

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