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No self hosting? What do you mean?

The (reactive JavaScript) Observable runtime is open source, and every notebook is available compiled as an ES Module.

You can embed notebooks in their entirety on any webpage, or just grab the embed code for an individual cell, if the notebook produces a single visualization.

For the details in all their nitty gritty, see: https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/downloading-and-embed...

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Does that now include the ability to create and edit, or still just run? Having to rely on a third party to create and edit could be problematic for some purposes.

A comment from May last year [1] says "But that won’t include the editable notebook interface or the rest of observablehq.com - unlike Jupyter, we’re really aiming to create a community and cross-pollination of concepts and code rather than individual installations. We might eventually launch something that enables offline editing, but that’s a bit further out in the future."

[1] https://talk.observablehq.com/t/noob-can-you-run-your-own-ob...

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