Enable self-contained tables in rendered quarto documents

[machow]

It appears that when rendering Reactable in quarto, ipyreact (or something else in the process) attempts to fetch require.min.js and embed-amd.js from a CDN. Let's investigate whether it's possible to output fully self-contained Reactable tables--either as a default, or by setting an option.

Some key considerations:

• output should appear in notebook or rendered quarto document
• it's okay if output is only self contained when using quarto, etc..
• we should be mindful of file size (e.g. when self-contained flag is off)

Useful code paths:

• we use ipyreact.define_module to specify the path to our js

Note that it sounds like migrating from ipyreact to directly using anywidgets is a common approach (as ipyreact is a lightweight wrapper around anywidgets, which is useful for prototyping!).

[machow]

Here is a helpful issue on how to wire up react with anywidget: manzt/anywidget#97

[machow]

Looking at the network requests, it appears ipyreact first looks for the javascript code off the relative path. E.g. if the table lives at example.com/my_table.html, it looks for example.com/@widgetti/jupyter-react.js.

I wonder if this can be customized at all? (e.g. to always point to example.com/assets/jupyter-react.js etc..)