Appmode: A new extension for turning notebooks into web applications

[o...@schuett.name]

Hi Everybody,

I would like to share with you a new Jupyter extensions that I have developed. It's called Appmode and it turns notebooks into web applications:

   https://github.com/oschuett/appmode

When a notebook is opened in Appmode:

   - a dedicated kernel is launched to allow for concurrent views.

   - code cells and the toolbar are hidden to provide a clean UI.

   - all cells are executed automatically.

Multiple notebooks can be linked via url parameters to create even more sophisticated user experiences.

We are currently using Appmode to build a platform for materials science in Switzerland and are pretty excited about it.

So, let me know what you think.

Cheers,

Ole

[Tim Head]

Hi Ole,

On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 11:34 AM <o...@schuett.name> wrote:

Hi Everybody,

I would like to share with you a new Jupyter extensions that I have developed. It's called Appmode and it turns notebooks into web applications:

This is super cool! I wanted to know if we could use binder and make it launch directly to the app, the answer is yes we can!

A demo from my repo:

https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/betatim/appmode/bindering?urlpath=%2Fapps%2Fexample_app.ipynb

Created a PR as well.

How much more is needed before you don't need Shiny anymore?? 😀

T

[Doug Blank]

Very cool! Game changer! Great idea, and well-executed. Thanks for sharing this.

-Doug

[o...@schuett.name]

Thanks! I'm glad you like it. 

> How much more is needed before you don't need Shiny anymore??

Yes, appmode together with ipywidgets is very similar to Shiny. However, appmode is much more lightweight as the extension consists of merely 300 lines of code.

-Ole

[Tim Head]

On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 1:41 PM <o...@schuett.name> wrote:

Thanks! I'm glad you like it. 

> How much more is needed before you don't need Shiny anymore??

Yes, appmode together with ipywidgets is very similar to Shiny. However, appmode is much more lightweight as the extension consists of merely 300 lines of code.

Nice!

My original comment should have had some kind of sarcasm tags to make it clear it was about thinking that Shiny is obsolete and how super cool appmode looks ;)

T

[Thomas Kluyver]

Thanks Ole, this looks really neat!

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[Fernando Perez]

On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 6:09 AM, Thomas Kluyver <tak...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks Ole, this looks really neat!

+1, thanks for sharing! Very cool. 

[o...@schuett.name]

Thanks a lot for the endorsement!

Do you have any suggestions on how I could further promote Appmode?

-Ole

[Jason Grout]

I've been promoting it already :).

I have some ideas about how such a project could make better use of some of the new components coming out of the JupyterLab project to make it lighter weight and not depend so much on the classic notebook. I'll post an issue to the project soon.

Thanks,

Jason

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[Jason Grout]

I made an issue at https://github.com/oschuett/appmode/issues/3

Thanks again!

Jason

[Matt Craig]

This is really excellent! Looking forward to trying it out this weekend...

[o...@schuett.name]

I have now also created a Conda package (thanks Matt for reviewing). It makes using Appmode with binder even simpler: https://github.com/oschuett/appmode/blob/master/environment.yml

-Ole

[Richard Signell]

BTW, it works great!  Check this app out:

http://tinyurl.com/y8d8p8ub

-Rich

[Richard Signell]