• We have built a custom solution based on web3 sample to host ipywidgets outside of Jupyter Notebook.

• Most of the code has been copied as is from https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets/blob/master/examples/web3 & https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets/blob/master/packages/html-manager/webpack.config.js.
  • Please try to minimize changes to original code to facilitate easier updatess.

• IPywidgets traditionally use requirejs.
  • traditionally as there seems to be some ongoing work to use commonjs2, though unsure how this will work with 3rd party widgets.
• Using 3rd party widgets require:
  • requirejs to be available in the current browser context (i.e. window)
  • Base IPywidgets to be defined using define in requirejs.
• Rather than bundling using amd or umd its easier to just import everything using commonjs2, then export for requirejs using define by hand.
  • define('xyz', () => 'a') is a simple way of declaring a named xyz module with the value a (using requirejs).
  • This is generally done using tools, however we'll hand craft this as it works better and easier.
  • amd is not what we want, as out react ui doesn't use amd.
  • umd is does not work as we have multiple entry points in webpack.
  • Heres' the solution define('@jupyter-widgets/controls', () => widgets);
• We bundling the widget controls into our JS and exposing them for AMD using define
  • We could instead include https://unpkg.com/browse/@jupyter-widgets/[email protected]/dist/embed-amd.js
  • However this is a 3.2MB file.
  • Then our Widget manager also needs the widget controls. That would mean widget controls get included twice, once in our bundle and the other in the above mentioned embed-amd.js file.
  • Solution is to include everything thats in embed-amd.js into our bundle.
• We need types for requirejs, but installing this into node_modules, for extension causes conflicts as we use require in standard node (extension and UI).
  • Solution is to just copy the @types/requirejs/index.d.ts into the types folder.

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You might want to setup an npm link for the python repository

• git clone https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-jupyter.git
• git clone https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-jupyter-ipywidgets.git
• cd vscode-jupyter-lsp-ipywidgets
• npm link
• cd ..\vscode-jupyter
• npm link @vscode/jupyter-ipywidgets (the name of the node module in python)

Then to build vscode-jupyter-ipywidgets

• npm run download-api (updates vscode.d.ts)
• npm run webpack (which will setup stuff for using with vscode-python)

• Run the steps above for getting the npm link setup
• From with VS code, open both jupyter and lsp-middleware as two folders
• Build the 'webpack link' task for lsp-middleware
• Build the compile task for jupyter
• Set breakpoints in the dist/node/index.js file while debugging (it's a development webpack)
• Edit lsp code
• Rerun the 'webpack link' build every time (it doesn't watch as it runs a post build step)