Suggesting extra packages & one-click addition

[thbar]

I love the UX of smart cells which provide automatic registration in Mix.install/2 of required packages.

I wonder if the same possibility could be added easily for "common packages" (such as kino).

I often create notebooks without Kino initially, play around with the data, and at some point want to display them in Kino.DataTable.

By default we get an error like this:

** (UndefinedFunctionError) function Kino.DataTable.new/1 is undefined (module Kino.DataTable is not available)

We could maybe register the fact that this relatively standard module is provided by kino and suggest it's installation via a one-click operation, like done via the smart cells?

Curious to know what you think of this, in terms of experience I would find it interesting & homogenous.

[josevalim]

You can create a template notebook with your dependencies and "star" it. It will show up in the home page and every time you want to create a new notebook, you can fork it. :)

[thbar]

Thanks for the information (will definitely use that)! It's already a good thing & I wasn't aware of that - yet I feel the user experience would be even better without a template (I tend to trim down dependencies to the minimum so that my scripts age well).

Thank you, will play around with this!