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Hmm no. It is not coupled to Observable at all, what problems exactly are you facing to use it elsewhere?
by jiofih 6y ago
Hmm no. It is not coupled to Observable at all, what problems exactly are you facing to use it elsewhere?
- jakecopp 6y agoBoth the introduction link [1] and examples link [2] on the D3 homepage [3] and Github [4] only shows sketches on Observable - is there any official D3 getting started documentation not on Observable? Similar frustations are aired in a forum post: "I want to learn D3. I don`t want to learn Observable. Is that ok?" [5]. [1]: https://observablehq.com/@d3/learn-d3 https://observablehq.com/@d3/learn-d3 [2]: https://observablehq.com/@d3/gallery https://observablehq.com/@d3/gallery [3]: https://d3js.org/ https://d3js.org/ [4]: https://github.com/d3/d3/wiki https://github.com/d3/d3/wiki [5]: https://talk.observablehq.com/t/i-want-to-learn-d3-i-don-t-want-to-learn-observable-is-that-ok/1957 https://talk.observablehq.com/t/i-want-to-learn-d3-i-don-t-w...
- addicted 6y agoThe vast majority of library documentation of even major libraries is simply text with no playground. The fact that they’ve made the effort to add a playground by leveraging a fairly easy to use tech should not be held against the open source maintainers! Besides, all those examples are trivially reproducible locally, the way you would have to do it for the vast majority of languages which don’t give such fancy interactivity in their tutorials.
- soul_grafitti 6y agoI am a fan of D3 and Mike but I also agree with the point - it's not at all simple to take the examples from Observable and implement them in a non-Observable page. Or maybe it is simple but it's not intuitive unless you are familiar with Observable. So perhaps the solution is to have a page that describes how to move the examples from Observable to an HTML page? eg. where to put the scripts and where to put the HTML.