July Changelog

Enjoy our monthly recap of product updates to Livedocs, awesome datasets, articles, and more!

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🔍 Expand view

In early July, the team had a chat about what we want using Livedocs to feel like. The answer was clear — flow state. Just like programmers are able to lock-in with their IDE, local tools, and cup of coffee — we want data wranglers can deep dive into their work. With this in mind, we added expand view to every cell in Livedocs.

You can now expand any cell to a full screen view with a few options of how you want to configure your expand view layout. Stack the editor and results horizontally or vertically.

🌍 Language Server Protocol

This one has a bit of a backstory. Since our inception, we knew the baseline for devUX when writing code in a browser is: it shouldn’t feel like typing code into a textbox. Using CodeMirror was a great first step, but something was missing. You know how when you write code in your favorite code editor or IDE, there are little yellow and red squiggly lines for errors and warnings in the file?

Well, that’s all made possible by a local Language Server. Language servers talk to your IDE using Language Server Protocol and do more than just errors and warnings — hovering on functions to see documentation, autocomplete suggestions, and static analysis is all thanks to a language server.

The team collaborated with Mahmud Ridwan from Furqan Software to build a custom LSP plugin for our editors. You can now not only see errors and warnings before actually running Python cells, but also view documentation and autocomplete suggestions. To take this experience to the next level, we’ve enabled Livedocs AI on the UI so you can prompt your favorite LLM to fix these errors and warnings for you.

🧙 Filters and no-code wizardry

Writing code is great, especially for complex data tasks. But sometimes, for quick things like filtering a dataframe or quewry results, trimming a chart a little bit, etc, I often wished there was a simpler way to do it.

Starting this month, you can not only filter tables by adding filters on column headers, but also add color rules to highlight trends and values that meet criteria.

And the fun doesn’t stop there! You can now filter charts visually too. Simply select the regions of the chart you want to keep (or remove)

That’s it for this months updates. We have some major updates coming in August that I can’t wait to share with you all. In the mean time:

• 💬 If you have questions or feedback, please email me directly at a[at]livedocs[dot]com
• 📣 Take Livedocs for a spin over at livedocs.com/start. Livedocs has a great free plan, with $5 per month of LLM usage on every plan
• 🤝 Say hello to the team on X and LinkedIn

Until next time!