Observable Plot has crossed 100,000 weekly downloads (and very close to 5,000⭐️s)! observablehq.observablehq.cloud/oss-analytic...

If we keep adding languages, we’re gonna need a bigger cell menu…

Observable Notebook Kit & Desktop 1.4 now support TypeScript cells, along with TypeScript for Node.js data loader cells. (Just type stripping, but greatly helps interoperability.)

A small but significantly useful victory: I got file association working with Observable Desktop.

Observable Notebook Kit and Desktop 1.3.0 are out, featuring data loader cells. You can now (finally!!) write Python and Node.js in notebooks. 🐍 observablehq.com/notebook-kit...

Observable Notebook Kit and Desktop 1.2.0 add Google BigQuery and Databricks database connectors! observablehq.com/notebook-kit...

A little demo of reactive SQL in Observable Notebooks 2.0, first using (native) DuckDB to bake data from a remote source, followed by DuckDB-Wasm to create and query reactive views in the client. Should be released this week!

You can import a viewof in a vanilla JavaScript cell like this:

import {figure, viewof$rotation} from "observable:@rreusser/drawing-3d-objects-with-svg";

I can look into the ojs syntax error, but definitely recommend adopting vanilla JavaScript wherever possible! Thanks for the write-up.

Thanks for sharing, Nicolas! One tip, if you like you can use static imports in (vanilla) JavaScript cells now:

import * as geoviz from "npm:geoviz";

I got a proof-of-concept self-hosted jsr: imports working, so we should be able to land this soon too! github.com/observablehq...