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I've seen these called "explorables" or "explorable explanations" before and I really like them. I've been collecting notes on them here: https://simonwillison.net/tags/explorables/

Here's the website that coined the term: https://explorabl.es/



This is a really nice collection. Thanks for putting them together. I'm very partial to this writing style as well.

I took a crack at making it slightly nicer to write this style of blog post via markdown with codeblocks you can mark to execute instead of display (and hot reload + gist rendering support)

It makes the source easy to read, even on GitHub preview, etc.

It's what I've been using to write my recent posts.

https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/mdxish

But at the end of the day, content itself and the code that powers it is more important than any framework you might use.


That's a really neat system. Reminds me of Observable Framework, which I tried here https://github.com/simonw/observable-framework-experiments/b... to create this: https://simonw.github.io/observable-framework-experiments/pa...


ah ` echo` is smart - I didn't realize that would properly render in markdown editors / github, hence the comment approach.

That observable system you made here sure renders beautifully.


Thank you for collecting and sharing these. I was so impressed by the submission that my first thought was to find some repository that contains the samples of a similar caliber.




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