Built-in interactive table support for the Julia engine (parity with R DT / Python itables)

[RagavRajan]

Quarto's HTML output has well-supported paths for interactive data tables in R (DT::datatable()) and Python (itables.show()). There is no equivalent for the Julia engine — df-print: paged only ships for R, and the dashboard table post-processor (src/format/dashboard/format-dashboard-tables.ts) only matches DT/itables script signatures.

[RagavRajan]

@jkrumbiegel, what are you thoughts on this?

[mcanouil]

@RagavRajan Quarto/Julia does support interactive table, etc. What's needed is the Julia library to do it.
Note that the interactive tables support is not built-in, as it's from DT and itables.
Julia support is very unlikely to come from the engine itself.

For example, using Bonito which only has sort ability:

---
format: html
engine: julia
---

```{julia}
#| include: false
using Pkg
Pkg.add("DataFrames")
Pkg.add("Bonito")
using DataFrames, Bonito
Page(exportable = true, offline = true)
```

```{julia}
df = DataFrame(A = 1:100, B = round.(rand(100), digits = 2), C = repeat(["x", "y", "z", "w"], 25))
App(Bonito.Table(df))
```

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Related to:

• https://github.com/orgs/quarto-dev/discussions/3213

[RagavRajan]

Ohh I understand. Thanks for clarifying @mcanouil.