[IPython-dev] Sharing Custom Widgets

Pierre Villeneuve pierre.villeneuve at gmail.com
Mon Apr 21 23:24:06 EDT 2014


Jon,

Thanks for the feedback.  One of my goals is to distribute a package that
contains a class able to "display" my HTML and JS content when others use
it from within their own notebooks.  It looks like I should be able to use
a variant of your method to make this work.

Thanks again.

Pierre V. Villeneuve
pierre.villeneuve at gmail.com
On Apr 21, 2014 4:26 PM, "Jonathan Frederic" <jon.freder at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Pierre,
>
> My responses are inline below,
>
> Cheers,
> Jon
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Pierre Villeneuve <
> pierre.villeneuve at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am working on a Notebook project where I want to build an HTML view of
>> my analysis results, potentially including a good bit of JavaScript.
>>  Initially I had decided my display would not need to communicate with
>> anything in Python land and would simply be an isolated interactive
>> display.  It's not done yet, and I am still struggling with the JavaScript
>> parts.  Currently I display my HTML and run my JavaScript via IPython's
>> rich display functions.
>>
>> I really like the new Widget system and I am considering switching over
>> as I have new ideas for possible interaction with my display.  I have
>> looked through a number of examples for custom widget's, but it's not clear
>> how one might share a custom widget for use by other users.  I see that I
>> can define everything in a couple of Notebook cells, and then require the
>> user to step through and execute them.  Or I could require the user to
>> place files inside their .profile's  static/custom folder, but that seems
>> awkward.
>>
>>
> AFAIK the later is the "official" way to redistribute custom JS/CSS.
>  Personally, I prefer to include the JS in the same directory is my
> notebooks, I think it's easier for the user that way.  It's kind of a hack,
> but you can see how I do it in https://github.com/jdfreder/ipython-d3 .
>  The idea is to include a .py and .js file next to the notebook.  The .py
> file has a function that pushes the .js to the page using the display
> framework.  For the user, this means all they have to do is create a
> notebook in the same directory and do something like `import custompython;
> custompython.publishjs()`.
>
>
>> Does there exist a prescription for how I might package a custom widget
>> for simple installation by a remote users?  From my simple investigation so
>> far, it looks like RequireJS looks for JavaScript modules in two places:
>> the default ipython/html folder, or under the user's profile static folder.
>>  It would be nice if there was a mechanism to specify an additional folder,
>> e.g. a static folder I define as part of my package that gets installed by
>> the user.
>>
>
> We don't have a nice way to package IPython notebook extensions yet...
>
>
>>
>> Thanks for any advice.
>>
>> *Pierre Villeneuve*
>> pierre.villeneuve at gmail.com
>>
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