Feature request - support for shiny about itables HOT 4 CLOSED

Hi @iainmwallace , thanks for suggesting this. I think it should be doable to make itables work in the context of a Shiny app.

Some developments would be required on our end because py-shiny does not seem to be directly compatible with the display function of IPython. At the current stage of development of py-shiny, the render.table decorator calls explicitely df.to_html
https://github.com/rstudio/py-shiny/blob/2655fb487412881d7a946f7b8db41f9746a85678/shiny/render/_render.py#L526. This is different to how itables currently works in notebooks, where we just override pd.DataFrame._repr_html_, cf.

Before undertaking any such development, let me ask to the py-shiny developers whether they would consider supporting outputs coming from IPython.display calls.

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Fantastic, thanks @mwouts. The examples you posted on the other issue are really useful.

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I have been able to display a dataframe as an interactive datatable in a Shiny app with just ui.HTML(DT(df)), where DT is defined as

from itables.javascript import _datatables_repr_ as DT

See this comment for the full example (I am not sure at the moment if this is a sound approach!)

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Up-to-date tested examples are available at https://github.com/mwouts/itables/tree/main/tests/sample_python_apps

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