# Observable Electron app idea

**URL:** <https://talk.observablehq.com/t/observable-electron-app-idea/933>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [June 30, 2018, 12:34am UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/observable-electron-app-idea/933 "2018-06-30T00:34:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![RandomFractals](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/randomfractals/32/759_2.png) [@RandomFractals](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/RandomFractals)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2018, 12:34am UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/observable-electron-app-idea/933/1 "2018-06-30T00:34:03Z")

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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 if other folks fielded that idea yet or would be interested to make it work.

I’d def use an app v as a JS dataViz code snips ide 🙂

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**Author:** ![RandomFractals](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/randomfractals/32/759_2.png) [@RandomFractals](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/RandomFractals)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2018, 12:58am UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/observable-electron-app-idea/933/2 "2018-06-30T00:58:04Z")

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Observable Slack bot would be my next observables shares suggestion to assist dataViz geeks sharing good data munging code snips. too soon?

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**Author:** ![Fil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/fil/32/207_2.png) [@Fil](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/Fil)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2018, 4:13pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/observable-electron-app-idea/933/3 "2018-06-30T16:13:13Z")

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it’s really easy to make an electron app, yes; just follow [https://beta.observablehq.com/@jashkenas/downloading-and-embedding-notebooks](https://beta.observablehq.com/@jashkenas/downloading-and-embedding-notebooks)  
or [http://visionscarto.net/observable-jekyll/](http://visionscarto.net/observable-jekyll/)

If you’re ok with it calling external resources on the web then it’s just a matter of putting that exported code on index.html . In other words the most difficult part is making sure all your dependencies are available locally, if you want the app to be self contained.

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**Author:** ![RandomFractals](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/randomfractals/32/759_2.png) [@RandomFractals](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/RandomFractals)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 5:47am UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/observable-electron-app-idea/933/4 "2018-08-07T05:47:15Z")

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let’s do it? [https://twitter.com/TarasNovak/status/1026705441445822464](https://twitter.com/TarasNovak/status/1026705441445822464)