Export an interactive table that's static?

[kszlim]

Ie. have no backend, but allow export of a static html file that is interactive.

Even better if you don't need to embed the data as json or something within the document but instead can sidecar it as a parquet file or something (this might require duckdb wasm or something).

[machow]

Hey, thanks for raising this issue -- you should be able to export the table into a static html file. For example, the reactable-py documentation is a static site, generated with quarto.

You should be able to run quarto render example.qmd on a file like this...

example.qmd

---
title: example
jupyter: python3
--- 

```{python}
from reactable import Reactable, embed_css
from reactable.data import cars_93

embed_css()

Reactable(cars_93)
```

Here's what the resulting html file looks like for me. I think some resources are still currently pulled from a CDN, so it's not totally self-contained, but no webserver is needed.

Does that do what you're looking to do?

[dhimmel]

This is pseudocode what I'm currently using in my .qmd file:

```{python}
#| echo: false
#| output: asis
from reactable import embed_css
from my_package import get_reactable

embed_css()
get_reactable()
```

I found output: asis helps with an issue where the file size is about 4x too large because the table gets inserted multiple times.

I'm curious if there's a way to get the HTML Reactable would like to insert as a string for more control over the insertion or for use outside or quarto?