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Any plans to make the notebooks embeddable in other sites?

• jashkenas 9y ago
  Yes, and single interactive cells as well. A notebook already runs in a sandboxed iframe, and is able to load its dependencies there (libraries, data, values from other notebooks). So we're in quite good shape to be able to do that soon.
  • atarian 9y ago
    Cool! I've been looking for something like this for a while and couldn't have asked for better people to tackle it.
  • cscheid 9y ago
    Fantastic. One final question/request (for which I'd happily pay for!) : it would be awesome to have a path away from Observable's infra if desired. Say I _really_ want to host a particular notebook locally: is something like that planned? I know this is not a trivial feature since notebooks can call other notebooks, but I'd love to develop stuff on Observable knowing that should the worst happen and it doesn't exist anymore, I can run it all locally on my webpage.
    • jashkenas 9y ago
      Yes, something like that is in the roadmap. We’ve been scrambling to get things ready enough for this initial launch, but Mike managed to get the Standard Library open sourced this morning: https://github.com/observablehq/notebook-stdlib https://github.com/observablehq/notebook-stdlib One of the next pieces we'd like to open-source is the Notebook Runtime — All of the JS that you need to take a blank webpage, and host a notebook within it. After that, there's some file format details to figure out — hopefully a notebook can just be published and consumed as a standard ES Module. But then we'll be most of the way there.