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LivebookHelpers - Creating Livebooks From Module docs
Announcing GitHub - Adzz/livebook_helpers: Generates livebooks from module docs · GitHub
This is a library that generates a livebook from a module’s docs. It turns the module, type and function docs into a livebook, turning any doctests and elixir snippets into elixir cells and setting the doc itself as markdown.
This is helpful for boostrapping livebooks and having interactive versions of the Hexdoccs. You can for example set up a pipeline on hex publish that generates the livebook as part of it.
I’ve experimented with generating a livebook for all the core Elixir modules, for example here is the livebook for the Collectable protocol. Here is a livebook from the Time module.
Feedback welcome 
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Here is a blog post introducing what you can do with it:
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This is a very cool hack but…
I think this nicely sums up most of my programming career to date 
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Some nice ideas. I think if we were to go that route it could be good to build it into hexdocs itself.
I did try to host for free all the core Elixir module docs on Fly.io but one problem I ran into is there is a bit of a limit on the size of livebook that you can reasonably run.
For example you can’t open or run a livebook created in this manner for the Enum module in Elixir - it’s simply too large.
There isn’t really a workaround for this yet either - each Elixir cell is an instance of the monaco editor so if you have a lot of them the page gets very heavy. See this issue for more.
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