[FIXED] How do Jupyter Notebook extensions add functionality to a notebook?

Issue

Given that behind the scenes the data in a Jupyter notebook is JSON, I assume that a similar simple system is used for notebook extensions.

However, I haven't been able to figure out exactly how they work from the nb_extensions documentation.

How do they add functionality to Jupyter, and can this be mimicked by making additions to the Jupyter JSON file?

Solution

by looking at the github repo, it seems that the extensions are not made from JSON, but instead from html,css,javascript etc. also, according to the internal docs, the best way to add new features to jupyter is to clone their repo, create a new directory (under the src/jupyter_contrib_nbextensions/nbextensions directory), add a .yaml for configuration, a README file, and a javascript file for the extention's code.

btw, it seems that jupyter_contrib_nbextensions is dependent on another package called jupyter_nbextensions_configurator. so you might want to look into this

Answered By - ori raisfeld