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No where on the site do I see how to use these tools in my development environment. Even searching the topic produces no results. A quick browse of your GitHub does not lead to any obvious entry point for developing with Observable locally. This feels like a startup has prioritized onboarding people onto their platform rather than providing examples that are representative of how D3js is actually used. I am baffled as to why these are the official code examples.


It seems that Observable is an online environment - it's true that this is not explicitly stated, but it's alluded to throughout the homepage.

EDIT: Check out their about page for an explanation: https://observablehq.com/about


> It seems that Observable is an online environment

The site's interface is a massive turn off. I love using my editor, and if there's a way for me connect it to Observable, I'd use the platform full time.


there's observable runtime https://github.com/observablehq/runtime




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