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This is really a game changer for creating data apps. I loved observable, but convincing scientists with no js knowledge to try the platform was almost impossible. Markdown + language agnostic loaders seems like the perfect way to collaborate.

Are there any plans to allow existing observable notebooks to be deployed? For example, a one-click “deploy” button?

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The Observable Framework CLI supports a `convert` command for downloading an Observable notebook and converting it to Markdown. E.g., `observable convert @d3/bar-chart` will download the notebook and save a bar-chart.md and alphabet.csv to your current working directory. (We did it from the command line so it’s easy for you to automate or batch-convert or refresh and keep things in sync.) You may have to make some tweaks to the code due to Framework’s vanilla JavaScript syntax, but we’ll work on making that more seamless over time.

And you can `observable deploy` to deploy your app to Observable for sharing — though most often you’ll want to setup continuous deployment to keep your app up-to-date automatically.

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