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gopherdata / gophernotes

The Go kernel for Jupyter notebooks and nteract.
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embed gophernotes in an application? #232

Open cosmos72 opened 3 years ago

cosmos72 commented 3 years ago

@cdevr asked in https://github.com/cosmos72/gomacro/issues/13

Do you think it'd be possible to go even further and run something like gophernotes from within an app? (to get a notebook interface available inside a running application)

cosmos72 commented 3 years ago

I think it's feasible, although it currently requires duplicating a lot of code.

Gophernotes is actually "just" a ZeroMQ server that receives requests from a separate Jupyter notebook, forwards them to gomacro interpreter (loaded as a library, not a separate process), and sends back the evaluation results to Jupyter notebook as ZeroMQ replies.

So in theory one could import and call the Gophernotes code that launches such server.

The main difficulty is that all Gophernotes code currently resides in a package main thus it cannot be imported and used as library from another application: one would need to copy it to a different package first.

I am thinking whether it could be better to move Gophernotes code to a different package, and have a minimal package main that calls it...