What jupyterlab extensions should we install?

[rabernat]

There are so many cool ones: https://github.com/topics/jupyterlab-extension

Some ideas:

• https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab-git
• https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyter-renderers
• https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab-google-drive
• https://github.com/eWaterCycle/jupyterlab_thredds

Ping @lheagy and @ian-r-rose for some suggestions on how to trick out our jupyterlabs!

[ian-r-rose]

A few thoughts/suggestions:

• @jupyterlab/geojson-extension is pretty useful for quick inspection of geojson files (and if you have ogr2ogr at your fingertips, it is also useful for other formats).
• ipyleaflet is similarly useful for quick interactive maps.
• jupyterlab-google-drive could be useful, though one typically has to set up credentials with google for each deployment, so the maintenance burden would be increased there.
• Similarly, jupyterlab-github could be useful, but users would need to provide their own authentication tokens, so it wouldn't work well out-of-the-box.
• If you care to include pdflatex in the base image, @jupyterlab/latex could be nice for authoring LaTeX documents.
  • Of course, dask-labextension something we likely want :)
• I don't think it's quite ready for prime-time yet, but this extension for managing SLURM queues is promising: https://github.com/NERSC/jupyterlab-slurm

[lheagy]

I am also excited about where the "simplest notebook" is going, especially for education / training applications. I don't think is ready for wide use yet, but it is one to keep an eye on: https://github.com/yuvipanda/simplest-notebook

[jbusecke]

I would love to include nbresuse to monitor the ram usage on the 'head' node.

I also really like jupyterlab-code-formatter in combination with black to keep the code in notebooks neat.