Node.js Notebooks

Features

Enhanced REPL experience for Node.js in Notebooks (with top level awaits)
Run & debug JavaScript, TypeScript code in node.js
Built in support for typescript (ships with TypeScript & ts-node).
Built in support for plotly (plotly.js is shipped with the extension)
Rich (inline visualizations) using @tensorflow/tfjs-vis & Tensorboards
Excellent support for danfo.js (rich HTML output and plots)
Excellent support for arquero (rich HTML output)
Run shell scripts within the notebook cell.
Quickly prototype and view HTML/JavaScript/CSS output
Support for user input using readline

Packages such plotly, tfjs-vis & danfo.js support rich visualization only in the browser, however, this extension leverages the power of Notebooks to provide the same rich visualizations when targeting node.js.

Use the command Open a sample node.js notebook to open a sample notebook to get started with plotly.js, danfo.js, tensorflow.js, etc.

Getting started

For a REPL experience use the command Open Node.js REPL
- Consider installing the Jupyter extension for an enhance user interface (toolbars).
For a notebook experience, create a file with the extension *.nnb, e.g. sample.nnb
- Or use the menu item New File... to create a Node.js notebook

Examples

Use the command Open a sample node.js notebook to open a sample notebook.
Use the command Welcome: Open Walkthrough... to checkout the samples.

Requirements

node.js >= 12
node.js needs to be in the current path

Roadmap

Open a plain js/ts file as a notebook & vice versa.
Better renderers for tabular data (arquero, danfo.js, etc)
Vega plots without having to install vega
Custom node arguments

Known issues, workarounds and technical details

See here for more details

Thanks

Thanks to the various packages we provide integrations with which help make this extension useful:

justinrfenn/vscode-extension-notebook