The purpose of Sunbeam is to enable non-programmers to get started with Jupyter Lab on their own hardware. Users should not need to understand Python packages or how to use the command line to launch Jupyter Lab with a selection of software.
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uv + jupyter lab = sunbeam
Sunbeam is a graphical user interface application to launch Jupyter Lab with package selection using uv.
Download the latest release for your platform from https://github.com/strawlab/sunbeam/releases
Copyright 2025 Andrew D. Straw
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npm install
npm run tauri devThe sun icon comes from lucide.
UV_VERSION=0.9.9
curl --remote-name --location https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/download/$UV_VERSION/uv-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz
curl --remote-name --location https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/download/$UV_VERSION/uv-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz
tar xf uv-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz uv-aarch64-apple-darwin/uv
tar xf uv-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz uv-x86_64-apple-darwin/uv
mkdir -p src-tauri/binaries
mv uv-aarch64-apple-darwin/uv ./src-tauri/binaries/uv-aarch64-apple-darwin
mv uv-x86_64-apple-darwin/uv ./src-tauri/binaries/uv-x86_64-apple-darwin
lipo -create ./src-tauri/binaries/uv-aarch64-apple-darwin ./src-tauri/binaries/uv-x86_64-apple-darwin -output ./src-tauri/binaries/uv-universal-apple-darwinThe releases we distribute are built with GitHub Actions, but you can build a release locally.
(Requires rustup target add x86_64-apple-darwin)
npm run tauri build -- --target universal-apple-darwin