[FIXED] Globally configuring Javascript for notebooks on Jupyterhub

Issue

I would like to replace each user's custom.js file with a global version. The only way I can figure out how to do this currently is to overwrite ~/.ipython/profile_default/static/custom/custom.js after a user runs their first ipython notebook and their .ipython directory gets instantiated.

There must be a better way, either by providing some global version of custom.js or by replacing the default custom.js file during installation. In theory, one could also create symbolic links to a global custom.js but this didn't work for me for some reason.

I see that there is a file /srv/notebook/notebook/static/custom/custom.js on my system - but modifying it doesn't alter the custom.js that gets installed for each user.

Any suggestions?

Solution

I'm running jupyterhub with dockerspawner, and have just found a solution here.

To make the custom.js file adopted by each user, you can derivate the jupyter/base-notebook image by adding it to each user's custom directory:

ADD ./custom.js /home/$NB_USER/.jupyter/custom/custom.js

Note this path is the path defined in the jupyter notebook doc.

Hope this helps anyone having the same problem.

Answered By - Erqing Li