Running Jupyter without a server

[Ram Rachum]

Hi guys,

Do you know of a way to run Jupyter without an actual server? i.e. make Python run on the browser's JavaScript engine? I know it'll be inefficient, but it can be a good solution for simple usecases, and it can reduce the dependency on third-party servers.

Thanks,

Ram.

[Jonathan Gutow]

Can you explain the advantages of this over running a Jupyter python-based backend server locally, as is usually done? I am not sure I understand what you are thinking about.

Jonathan

[Ram Rachum]

Running a server locally isn't a huge deal-- if you're comfortable enough doing pip install and running a shell command. This is trivial for professional developers, but for inexperienced newbies it can be a hurdle.

I'm not saying that it's a problem that Jupyter requires a server. I'm just saying it would be cool and possibly useful if there was a way to run Jupyter purely in the browser.

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[Jonathan Gutow]

OK, now I understand what you are thinking about.

My first thought is that the performance of running an interpreter for Python inside the interpreted language javascript is likely to be poor. Thus, I think it would be best to concentrate efforts on packaging Jupyter and useful tools so that users can just download a package using their standard OS packaging methods. Keeping those packages up-to-date is a considerable effort. Additionally, servers on which people can just try Jupyter need to be kept available.

Jonathan

[Ram Rachum]

That's cool, thanks for sending.

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