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What’s the difference between the two? As someone who only dips into D3 every few years and just discovered Observable, I wasn’t aware that they were different.
by dimal 5y ago
What’s the difference between the two? As someone who only dips into D3 every few years and just discovered Observable, I wasn’t aware that they were different. I thought Observable was just a way of sharing D3 visualizations.
- j-pb 5y agoObservable is like Jupyter for Javascript. A general JS notebook environment, with the added twist that it uses reactive dataflow ideas to evaluate cells in a "right" and deterministic order (a common footgun in Jupyter where cells might be reevaluated manually, resulting in unexpected state). D3 is a JS library for data visualisations. Both are the brainchild of Mike Bostock. That's the connection. :)
- tracyhenry 5y agohttps://observablehq.com/@observablehq/javascript-and-observable https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/javascript-and-observ...