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JupyterLab: the next generation of the Jupyter Notebook

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Re: JupyterLab: the next generation of the Jupyter Notebook

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Post by niels_olson »

cauthon wrote: post #2

So RStudio in a browser? Jokes aside, this looks great. The biggest frustration I've had with the notebooks is the organization of code. Nice to see that become a bit more compartmentalized from the execution window.

As a non-professional user, I really like the existing everything-in-the-same-space-like-a-textbook-but-of-course-you-can-hide-libraries-and-modules layout. Is it still there somewhere?

Re: JupyterLab: the next generation of the Jupyter Notebook

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Post by bicubic »

> JupyterLab adapts easily to multiple workflow needs, letting you move from a Notebook/narrative focus to a script/console one.

I'm not sure I like where that design is going. It's starting to look an awful lot like RStudio and Matlab and I moved away from those tools for a reason. My favourite thing about Jupyter is that it is focused on notebooks and narrative. It brought about a revolution of sorts; now we have people blogging and writing papers in Jupyter, github is full of random useful notebooks.

This design almost seems like a step backwards in that regard.

Re: JupyterLab: the next generation of the Jupyter Notebook

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Post by sorenjan »

I love Jupyter notebooks, I just wish I could use them in a dedicated program instead of having to run a server and using a browser based client. It feels hacky and I just prefer native apps for coding and the browser for reading documentation and similar. Even an Electron based program that could be associated with notebook files and hide the server-client model would make it nicer to use. At the moment I like to open notebooks in a tab in the browser built into Visual Studio, with the editor open in a tab next to it. With some custom CSS this can be made to look pretty nice, although it's far from perfect.

There's of course value in being able to share notebooks and view them in browsers, I'd just prefer a more native experience when editing them. Maybe an extension for Visual Studio Code would be a good idea?

Re: JupyterLab: the next generation of the Jupyter Notebook

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Post by mungoid »

cauthon wrote: post #2

So RStudio in a browser? Jokes aside, this looks great. The biggest frustration I've had with the notebooks is the organization of code. Nice to see that become a bit more compartmentalized from the execution window.

Totally agree. My larger notebooks get pretty ugly and I have to spend a fair bit of time cleaning them up. But that's probably because I am not the most organized person ever.

Re: JupyterLab: the next generation of the Jupyter Notebook

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Post by m_ke »

sorenjan wrote: post #6

I love Jupyter notebooks, I just wish I could use them in a dedicated program instead of having to run a server and using a browser based client. It feels hacky and I just prefer native apps for coding and the browser for reading documentation and similar. Even an Electron based program that could be associated with notebook files and hide the server-client model would make it nicer to use. At the moment I like to op…

You should check this https://github.com/nteract/hydrogen/blob/master/README.md out.

Re: JupyterLab: the next generation of the Jupyter Notebook

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Post by bpchaps »

It looks nice - I kind of wish a lot of these features would have been put into jupyter itself, though. The lack of configurability in jupyter drives me insane. Sure, the configs are editable, but the lack of proper documentation makes it incredibly difficult.

Things like turning off autocomplete and limiting jupyter's ability to freeze my browser after an accidental infininte loop would go miles for me. These days I've just gone back into vim..

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