After notebooks 1.0 (2018–), we got inspired by @stephango.com’s 2023 stephango.com/file-over-app, leading to Framework (2023) and then Notebook Kit (2025), upon which we rewrote the site. Still stitching it together: you can now download your notebooks and open them in the desktop app.
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If you “Export JavaScript”, you can e.g. publish that module to npm and import it back to a notebook: import {hello} from "npm:example-observable-module" with {type: "observable"}; See observablehq.com/@observableh...
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We think web and desktop each have strengths and make different workflows ergonomic, so we’re not planning to try to sync notebooks back and forth. The web allows one-click publishing; desktop allows running Python against large or sensitive local files. Render unto Caesar…
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