I’m loving Observable for as a notebook for learning & exploring new datasets. The ease of use of the exsisting JS ecosystem within Observable is fantastic, and has saved me a lot of time. However I am struggling with the other direction, and looking for a solution to move notebooks back into my J…

I continue to dream about a read/write API for notebooks, so that people can use whatever external tools (source control, text editors, …) they prefer. For now I think copy/paste is the best you can do if you want to get content into Observable notebooks, unless you want to use some kind of hacky p…

@GordonSmith got it! I’ve been noodling with essentially the same concept for local dev.

This is an important topic: Unlocking Observable notebooks so that they can serve as components of larger projects and work together with production applications is something we’re very interested in making easier. It would be extremely helpful if you could describe a little more about your particu…

@jashkenas I don’t think I want an API (can’t believe I just typed that). My primary use-case is publishing a notebook or a subset of cells in a designed format to a website or application. I am using the Runtime to run cells reactively (notebook distiller tho :open_mouth:). No trouble pulling do…

[image] cesutherland: My primary use-case is publishing a notebook or a subset of cells in a designed format to a website or application. I am using the Runtime to run cells reactively (notebook distiller tho :open_mouth:). No trouble pulling down the notebook or using the Runtime. But iteration…

This is helpful, thank you! I glossed over that early on in one of the embedding notebooks or maybe the Runtime docs. It won’t quite solve for the bi-direction workflow but at a glance I think I can work with this in my primary use-case.

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GordonSmith April 22, 2020, 6:43am 3

I just asked for this over the weekend: API Request as I am working on a VSCode Observable extension (see pics in API Request)

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