Global Namespace Pollution

[GordonSmith]

I suspect this is being pulled in by d3-require, but window.define gets overwritten even if it existed prior to loading this library: https://github.com/d3/d3-require/blob/master/src/index.js#L88

[mbostock]

That’s correct. Unfortunately this is not something we can fix because it’s how AMD works: the global define is needed so that when require’d modules load asynchronously, they can register themselves with the AMD loader.

[mbostock]

Duplicate of d3/d3-require#33.

[GordonSmith]

@mbostock This is bit of a shame as it prevents the embedding of download notebooks in third party web sites...

[mbostock]

@GordonSmith It only applies if you call require, in which case you’ll need the global define or the notebook will be broken, anyway. If you don’t call require, the global define won’t be set.

[GordonSmith]

Unfortunately that is any notebook which contains some markdown as the stdlib requires the markdown js library,..

IOW embedding any notebook which contains markdown will overwrite the previously declared global define, potentially causing pain for the hosting website.

To be fair AMD require implementations have been battling this issue forever...

[mootari]

@GordonSmith I recommend moving the discussion to https://talk.observablehq.com/, where others with practical experience wrt embedding might be able to assist you.

As an aside, you could try to define get/set callbacks for window.define (here are some examples for scope wrapping and object proxying).