Whole-heartedly agree with the sentiments being expressed here, Observable is not user-friendly at all.
Using the same ‘download’ method described above, I am trying to grab and run D3 Sankey code from here…
just like I would do here from the blocks dot org site…
These seem to be the parts I need that I can easily get from blocks:
- sankey.js
- d3.min.js
- data.json
- index.html
Then I drop these files in a folder in my node app, run my node server, then go to the Sankey folder like this…
/localhost:5000 - Sankey-Parallel-Sets - index dot html
I can view a Sankey I’ve taken from the blocks site.
But the files I downloaded from Observable are confusing and do not carry the same content as seen in the blocks files.
What am I missing, why can’t Observable be as simple as bl.ocks? Yes, I can just use the blocks files (which I am doing), but I wanted to get THE Mike Bostock Sankey files as pointed to from the D3 site, not someone else’s interpretation of them.
Help please! 