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Jupyter Notebook Conversion
https://nbconvert.readthedocs.io/
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Is it possible to compile nbconvert to WebAssembly? #1766

Open pplonski opened 2 years ago

pplonski commented 2 years ago

It is possible to compile nbconvert to WebAssembly? Ive seen JupyterLite and Pyodide are using WASM. Is it possible to run nbconvert in the web browser?

MSeal commented 2 years ago

Parts of nbvonvert should work as is -- I'd need to give it a try on PyScript or something similar to confirm. But some of the conversions rely on latex or other system packages that wouldn't be available in a browser system. For the chromium pdf converstion we'd want to change it to use the active browser DOM instead of launching a process.

dgcmain commented 2 years ago

What about without the Latex and pdf, only HTML generator? I found that tornado is needed as a dependancy and it cant be installed with Pyodide. Any thoughts on a solution?

bollwyvl commented 2 years ago

It is now somewhat possible to run nbconvert in this forthcoming jupyterlite PR: https://github.com/jupyterlite/jupyterlite/pull/756#issuecomment-1214554290

It would take a lot of polish to be actually useful.

psychemedia commented 1 week ago

In passing, here's a jupyterlab anywidget — innovationOUtside/jupyter_anywidget_pandoc — that loads pandoc wasm and lets you run pandoc in the browser from within a pyodide kernel; jupyterlite base environment also needs anywidget installed in the pyodide kernel for this to run. (Does not currently work in xeus kernel.)