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How does it compare with Observable? https://observablehq.com/ https://observablehq.com/

• nichochar 2y ago
  They're both notebooks for TypeScript, but Observable is highly specialized in data visualizations (graphs, plots, etc...) and runs in the browser. Srcbook is built for different use cases: we focus on a backend runtime (node) and want to solve for non-data-visualizations workflows. Use cases like prototyping with a third party npm library, running a script to test your app's behavior, or building an AI agent.
• fsiefken 2y ago
  Compared to Observable, it's apache-2 licensed and it's self-hostable. The d3, p5 and database access you have to add yourself. With Observable user, workspace, diagramming and template management is built-in.
  • nichochar 2y ago
    Yes, these are all great points that I didn't mention, thanks for completing my answer.
  • bsimpson 2y ago
    Isn't Observable also open source? https://github.com/observablehq/runtime https://github.com/observablehq/runtime
• bsimpson 2y ago
  I think this is more like Google Colab, where the UI renders in the browser, but offloads computation to a kernel running elsewhere. As I recall, Observable uses the browser's JS runtime for computation.