bloxs VS literary

Right now it is flowing the notebook html. It should be possible to add some layout library (Python library that will do HTML+CSS to get nice layout).

Recently I did similar for displaying numbers in the notebook as a good looking boxes. I created a small Python package that takes the number and creates a box with borders with HTML+CSS. It is pretty handy for building dashboards in Python. The package name is Bloxs https://github.com/mljar/bloxs

Hi, I would like to share with you a small python package that I've created to display data in a notebook in an attractive way. The package is called bloxs and is available on GitHub https://github.com/mljar/bloxs.

Eh, I think this misses the point of why Jupyter Notebooks are useful, and who is using them.

I agree that in terms of literate programming as Knuth defined it, Notebooks are not great. There are tools to improve that story; I wrote https://github.com/agoose77/literary which at least lets you do a bit more "tangling and weaving" than you can out of the box. It doesn't let you define functions in arbitrary order, or implement fragments of a code block, but it does let you "boil down" a literate representation into something that is zero-cost at runtime and imports. There's also nbdev, although it's not my cup of tea.

The real point, though, is that most data-scientists aren't using (imo) notebooks to write and share libraries of code. Instead, they're using notebooks as semi-reproducible reports. I'm a physicist, and that's what I've been using Jupyter for. For me, Jupyter Notebooks are fantastic - the cell mechanism lends itself to rich-outputs that augment the narrative, and present the information in-line with the code that wrote it.

For me, the biggest gap here is writing _libraries_ that are leveraged in these notebooks. That's why I wrote Literary - to try and resolve some of the pain points that currently require you to use two tools (Jupyter Lab & e.g. PyCharm). I'm not saying it will work for everyone, or solve all of the problems, but for me it's enough to write my analysis as a package, so that's a limited success in my book.