[IPython-dev] Current status of sharing/publishing widgets?

[Adam Hughes]

This question is also very interesting to our group!

Just to clarify, are we talking about a use-case where nbconvert has a
fully functioning GUI, or just that the GUI itself is visible in a static
state?  I think the latter is still kind of useful for teaching purposes.

Thomas, considering that massive to-do list that must be on the IPython
team's plate at this point, is there an estimated timetable for some of
those plans you mentioned?

On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Thomas Kluyver <takowl at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's worth mentioning that we have plans to make this use case easier.
> There are three things we're planning to do:
>
> - Store widgets in the notebook document format, so they persist in a
> notebook without having to rerun the cells generating them.
> - Make a 'comms only kernel' that handles widget requests but not regular
> execution messages, so you can expose it on the public internet
> (relatively) safely.
> - Make a tool that can iterate through all possible widget states and
> record the output to a set of small files, so you can run simple
> widget-driven things from a static file server.
>
> Thomas
>
> On 19 September 2014 01:18, Matthias Bussonnier <
> bussonniermatthias at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> No it cannot be shared currently on nbviewer. What I would suggest is
>> building a single-cell app that feed the widget with precomputed data
>> depending on the possibilities. It could be hosted on a Heroku-like
>> platform but still require some extra work.
>>
>> Otherwise you have to ask people to download your lib and run it.
>> --
>> M
>>
>>
>> Envoyé de mon iPhone
>>
>> > Le 19 sept. 2014 à 02:14, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com> a
>> écrit :
>> >
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I've recently been spending some time creating a widget that I'd
>> ideally like to publish along with a paper submission to the arxiv.  This
>> would hopefully just be a link that readers could click on that would take
>> them to a page where they can explore the widget without having to run the
>> code or have all the data necessary to generate the widget from script.
>> >
>> > I know that there were plans to get something like this working for
>> IPython 3.0.
>> >
>> > What is the current status?  Is it possible to share widgets on e.g.
>> nbviewer? Failing that, what are the current best practices for sharing
>> widgets?
>> >
>> > -Nathan
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