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I'm not up to speed on the latest -- thanks for linking this, it looks great! I've shied away from Observable, I didn't quite like the lock-in to their notepad
by btbuildem 4y ago
I'm not up to speed on the latest -- thanks for linking this, it looks great!
I've shied away from Observable, I didn't quite like the lock-in to their notepad-like env, and all the examples following what to me felt like a backward style. It's great to see they've produced a higher-level complement to d3.
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- mbo 4y agoI empathize - I was a little worried about what would happen to my work if Observable shut down. But the lock-in is less severe these days. The parser, runtime and standard lib are all open-source, so you can run a full notebook in VSCode https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GordonSmith.observable-js https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GordonSm... I've come to appreciate the non-standard extensions they've made to JS too - the reactive cell model has greatly reduced the amount of code I've needed to write compared to a hypothetical React equivalent. It's my #1 platform for my small side projects these days. I'll quickly note for anyone uncertain - Plot is pure JS so it doesn't have to be used in an Observable notebook. Will run anywhere D3 does.