Explore new tools: Evidence.dev

Johan
2 min readMar 14, 2024

Stumbled upon this via LinkedIn, describes as:

An open source toolkit for building data products with just SQL and markdown”.

This is the architectural overview:

Steps to get this up&running:

Then, in VSCode:

  1. Open the command palette in VS Code (Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + P)
  2. Select ‘New Evidence project’ or, when you have already defined a project, choose ‘Open Folder’, pointing to the folder where the Evidence project is stored.

The folder contains an example Markdown file:

When pushing the button in VSCode “Start Evidence”, NPM packages are installed to run the Evidence project:

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Johan
Johan

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I am a freelance data engineer. My main focus is Snowflake, but I am always eager to learn new things. Python and AWS are my main side interests

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