Can a Framework app be imported back into Framework?

[aaronkyle]

Hi there 👋

I am aware that importing Observable notebooks is not supported, ^{ref1, ref2} and that the recommended procedure for getting notebooks into Framework is to convert and adapt them. However -- once I do that, is there a way that I can import functions from a Framework app into another app (or from one file in an app to another in the same app)?

I ask this because I have converted a number of notebooks into working apps, and would like to re-use the code as imports. To date, I have been doing this in two steps: 1) converting the notebook, and then 2) refactoring it into a vanilla JS file for exporting.

Recently, when working on a port of Tom Larkworthy's AWS Helpers notebook, I discovered behaviors that work just fine in the context of the Framework app ^{[code] [rendered site]}, but which do not translate well when trying to adapt it to a vanilla JS export^[code]. The errors I am facing could be avoided if I were able to export a framework app with the Observable runtime in a similar manner as with notebooks.

Thank you for your help and insights! 🙏