Viewer for VS Code (Notebook Alternative)

When julia used with multiple files and VS Code.

What are options to render plots, doc, formulas? Basically just some sort of renderer like Notebook Viewer?

For many years and currently I use my own reporting - basically generating markdown or my own report format with julia, saving it as file and just viewing it in browser (see image below), but, there should be some better way. So what are the options?

Something lightweight and simple, ideally reactive, when you change code in VS - it should update document automatically (no need for UI control and interactivity in the document itself).

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Julia also provides quick view in VSCode, really like it, but - it has huge problem, the preview is small, and when I double click it - it gets bigger, but when I double click on it to minimise it back - it doesn’t work well, it doesn’t remember tis original minimised size, and minimises it to larger view, so you had to manually resize it back to small size, which is very inconvenient and pretty much makes zooming it unusable.

I wrote bonitobook for such use cases:

A reactive feature is planned as well, so you could have the book rendered in the plotpane while editing the markdown via vscode ( I tend to do that too instead of actually working in the notebook)

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quarto preview somenotebook.qmd also opens the browser with a live preview which will be updated when you change and save the markdown source. Using Julia – Quarto

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If you know a good video demos with similar approaches share links please.

I’m trying to figure the whole picture - what tools available and workflows possible.

Don’t forget Jupyter notebooks, they have a great support in VSCode specifically.
Outside of vscode-specific solutions, consider Pluto notebooks as well.