jupyterlab-outsource

Alternate editors for JupyterLab text sources

Features

• Rich text editing for Markdown cells in the notebook
  • powered by ProseMirror
• Visual Code editing
  • powered by Blockly

Installation

• install JupyterLab >1.0.0 and NodeJS, such as with conda:

conda install -c conda-forge jupyterlab nodejs
# TBD: jupyter labextension install \
#       @deathbeds/jupyterlab-outsource
#       @deathbeds/jupyterlab-outsource-prosemirror \
#       @deathbeds/jupyterlab-outsource-blockly
jupyter lab

Usage

• In JupyterLab
  • Open a notebook
  • Click the

Roadmap

• Add MIME renderers, too
• Rich text
  • Inline CodeMirror
  • Tables
  • Todo lists
  • LaTeX Math
• Visual Code editing
  • Block mime type
• Get these into core (or at least first-party extensions)