Hey, I am interested in integrating notebook functionality into my application. I noticed that VS Code seems to have a custom frontend, and was wondering how this is done?
I found documentation about the REST API, which seems to be for managing content, kernels, sessions, etc. https://jupyter-server.readthedocs.io/en/latest/developers/rest-api.html And I found documentation of the kernel zmq protocol, which seems to be at a lower level. https://jupyter-client.readthedocs.io/en/stable/messaging.html I had a look with the web inspector at a running Jupyter Lab which seems to use a websocket for executing code and drawing figures and widgets. With some copy-pasting I was able to execute a bit of code and get a reply. But I can't find any documentation on this websocket protocol. I'm particularly concerned about plots and widgets. I looked around in https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-jupyter a bit and there is a lot going on. They seem to have custom implementations for all sorts of widgets. For my usage, I think it makes more sense to embed the existing Jupyter Notebook interface rather than re-implement everything from scratch. Is this something that can be done at a more fine-grained level than throwing the entire app in an iframe? The main challenge is getting interactions between my app and the notebook going. For example creating and evaluating cells/notebooks. And making widgets that do stuff in the rest of the app. Maybe I could write extensions that offer their own API to my app? For context, I'm writing an app for drawing and simulating schematics. Something like LTspice, KiCad, or even a bit like Simulink, for those familiar with that. So it definitely makes no sense to embed the whole thing INSIDE a notebook. Maaaaybe the entire editor could be a mimerender plugin, but that still doesn't answer the question how the editor can run simulations in a notebook (which plots the results) and then back-annotate results into the schematic. Curious to hear your thoughts. Regards, Pepijn -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Jupyter" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jupyter+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jupyter/03ed66ab-2ffe-47cf-bf1d-66d224f513f8n%40googlegroups.com.
