Jupyter notebook server extension

The classic notebook as a server extension.

This repo is experimental and meant to demonstrate how the notebook could be launched as a frontend+server extension. It is a fork of the classic notebook, refactored to use the jupyter_server and jupyter_server_extension dependencies.

Install

Important: use a virtual environment to avoid messing with your actually notebook installation.

Ways to launch

1. Run the notebook app directly.

   jupyter notebook
   

2. Use jupyter server to launch the notebook.

   Make sure the notebook is enabled.

   jupyter server extension list
   jupyter nbextension list
   

   If the frontend extensions or server extension is not enabled, enable them!

   # Enable the frontend extension
   jupyter nbextension enable notebookext --sys-prefix
   
   # Enable the server extension
   jupyter server extension enable notebookext
   

   Then run with the default URL set to the notebook tree:

   jupyter server --default_url="/tree"
   

How does it work?

Here's a short list of what's happening"

• All handlers inherit from the JupyterExtensionHandler (i.e. see here)
• NotebookApp inherits from JupyterExtensionApp.
• load_jupyter_server_extension loads config and appends handlers to jupyter server.