Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette (opens in new tab)

Today we launched a new plugin for Datasette, on the Datasette project blog. That post has the what, but I'm going to expand on that a little bit here to provide the why. The TL;DR Datasette Apps are self-contained HTML+JavaScript applications that run in a tightly constrained sandbox hosted on your Datasette application. They can use JavaScript to run read-only SQL queries against data in Datasette, and can run write queries too if you configure them . Here's a and a - the latter lo...