Integration into existing workflows

[mcmcclur]

Notebooks 2.0 looks very promising! Like the existing notebooks at observablehq.com, they seem best for experimentation and single page projects. So, I wonder... What's the recommended way to integrate pages built with Observable Desktop into larger projects built with existing static site generators? I'm particularly interested in the following:

• Observable Framework,
• Quarto, and
• Svelte.

[mbostock]

I don’t yet have an opinion on this, but I imagine there are myriad good answers. The ones that come to mind immediately are: creating standalone pages, possibly with a custom page template; creating standalone pages that can be iframe’d into another app; using the Vite plugin alongside whatever else exists in your app; inlining generated notebooks directly into other pages; etc.

I don’t expect us (Observable) to be putting much effort into this problem, but it should be something the community can contribute either to Notebook Kit or by building on top of it.

[mcmcclur]

I don’t expect us (Observable) to be putting much effort into this problem, but it should be something the community can contribute either to Notebook Kit or by building on top of it.

That seems reasonable! I did want to check to see if you had something along those lines before jumping, though.
Thanks!

[mbostock]

I am also interested in adding a few Framework-like features to Notebooks, namely a sidebar for navigating across notebooks, a table of contents for navigating within a notebook, and search across notebooks.