Hi all! The Observable Framework release sure is exciting. But… don’t you just miss the ease and simplicity of creating a notebook right inside your browser without the setup hassle?
I know I do. Which is why I’ve created a couple of devcontainers that can be used with Github Codespaces to start using Observable Framework right inside your browser.
Usage instructions are available on the respective repository pages:
I will try and include some more base images (R, Julia, C++) in the future.
So, this allows for python (and all else…) to run on the browser? I made some change in the python code and all changes are shown in the dashboard, live. Looks very nice!
A remote machine hosted by GitHub, but accessibility wise, yes!
If/once StackBlitz bumps their ‘webcontainer’ Node engine to version >20, I’ll try and make it work there also. vscode.dev might be another candidate.
As a side note, devcontainers can also be used to setup a local development environment in VScode on your own machine.
Since Stackblitz has upgraded the base Node version of their Webcontainers, it is even easier to get started with Observable Framework:
Note that Javascript is fully supported, but I think Python support is still experimental. You may try your luck with pyodide, pyscript or similar in the meantime.