jupyter4science/scipy2024-jupyter-widgets-tutorial

SciPy2024 Tutorial on "Building Complex Web Applications with Jupyter Notebooks"

scipy2024-jupyter-widgets-tutorial's Issues

Address comment from review of #5

#5 (comment)

Change `os.path` calls with `pathlib.Path`

This is not a high priority but if there is time I'd like to replace the uses of os.path in the notebooks with pathlib instead. I've found pathlib easier to work with, and you get the / operator for combining path names.

Ideas for 2025

• Replace matplotlib with bqplot
• Put all of the nbdev directives into the notebook
• Focus more on pain points/common errors initially
• Tab based/multi-page app
• Suggest coordinating/timing tutorials so that dashboarding doesn't overlap
• Demo nbdev in smaller notebook before widgets (like one short function)

Rendering ipywidgets in Quarto

TLDR: I don't think it's possible to use server-side widgets using Jupyter Notebooks and Quarto. It may be possible to render basic widgets in a .qmd document instead, though there is confusion about which Jupyter widgets actually will work.

In the documentation, it appears that this should be possible

"Jupyter Widgets and htmlwidgets ... run entirely client-side so can be deployed within normal static HTML documents.

There are several issues that suggest that this documentation is somewhat misleading.

In quarto-dev/quarto-cli#6496, some people say that there is confusion because some, but not all of the client-side widgets seem to work. That point aside, the following working example was proposed:

---
format: html
---

```{python}
import ipywidgets as widgets
widgets.IntSlider()
```

and then calling the command quarto render example.qmd and opening the resulting file, example.html, in a browser tab.

This work for me as well when I put that code in a quarto markdown document (.qmd) only.

However, when I try the same example using a Jupyter Notebook, the code appears just the same, but the javascript widget doesn't appear.