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Cool stuff! What was the reason for you to make this?

I find myself opening and using the web console to do simple tasks like string manipulation, maths, sorting often. I wanted a dedicated and persistent way to do this. And also just a place to keep notes, urls and stuff. So I made this "literate programming" notepad.

I'm also former Emacs user, and I like the lisp scratch buffer there, which is similar.

Ah, I do that too, that must be why playing with this app made me happy :-) Thanks for making it, have bookmarked it.

I love how simple and effective this is.

I'm also building a web-based literate programming environment called Starboard[1] that's probably a hundred times the amount of code (but then it has additional features such as top-level await, plugin, and Python support).

Consider supporting lit-html[2] literals instead of strings for HTML output, it works really well in notebook environments.

One more thing you can consider: a esm tagged literal that uses import(<data url of the code>), you can then use ES Module imports to dynamically load code. Here's a blog post about that approach [3]

[1]: https://starboard.gg [2]: https://lit-html.polymer-project.org/ [3]: https://2ality.com/2019/10/eval-via-import.html

Starboard looks very cool as well. Is there anyway to push all the outputs into a separate 'document'? That'd be super cool for e.g. Latex too.

My issue with these notebooks is they always get very cluttered with inline outputs after a couple 100 lines.

Not to be rude (I actually like it), but why build your own instead of using one of the many JavaScript REPLs already available?

I've been using this extension for a while...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/markdown-new-tab/d...

Would be neat to see this integrated in somehow.

That would be awesome!

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