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I'm definitely keen on suggestions for improvements I can make to the default UI.

Datasette provides both a JSON API (easily enabled for CORS access) and supports custom templates, so it's possible to customize the UI any way you like.

So far I've not seen many examples of extensive customization. I use the custom templates a lot myself - these four sites are all just regular Datasette with some custom templates:

- https://datasette.io/

- https://til.simonwillison.net/

- https://www.niche-museums.com/

- https://www.rockybeaches.com/us/pillar-point

Source code is on GitHub for all four.




> I'm definitely keen on suggestions for improvements I can make to the default UI.

Have you looked at other modern data-apps? AirTable? Notion? Jupyter Notebooks at least?

> Datasette provides both a JSON API (easily enabled for CORS access) and supports custom templates, so it's possible to customize the UI any way you like.

Seems promising. But how much does the JSON API support interactive work with data? The UI I've seen just reloaded the whole dataset it seems? There seems to be no way to specify queries and views from the UI. Would the API have means to manage such side-data?




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