jupyter-vim-binding VS nbdime

I already use jupytext to store notebooks as code but the improved state management and notebook-as-app features are pretty compelling and I'm trying it out.

Unfortunately, I'm quite used to very specific vim keybindings in Jupyter (https://github.com/lambdalisue/jupyter-vim-binding) that make it pretty hard to use anything else :/

On the on hand: cool, if you're an avid emacsen or a vimmer, yeah, ok. OTOH, gosh that is such a cluttered and cumbersome setup. Just bring in vim/emacs bindings to your jupyter: https://github.com/lambdalisue/jupyter-vim-binding. There's a handful of plugins, choose one.

Whatever the final solution everyone decides should be, I just hope it doesn't involve having two redundant windows open side-by-side like that.

Use jupyter-vim-bindings! Works really well!! https://github.com/lambdalisue/jupyter-vim-binding

Also, you can check out the vim key-binding extension if you are a loyal vim user like me! https://github.com/lambdalisue/jupyter-vim-binding

I remember hearing about nbdime and thinking it sounded useful, but I've never really needed it since I rarely use Jupyter in the first place. But then I made some changes to my Hanukkah of Data 2023 notebook to work with the follow-up "speed run" challenge (a new dataset and slightly tweaked clues), and the native Git diff was too noisy to be useful. nbdime came to the rescue! Here are the changes I had to make for days 2 and 3 during the speed run:

[5] ReviewNB for reviewing & diff'ing notebook PRs / Commits on GitHub

Disclaimer: While I’m the author of last two (GitPlus & ReviewNB), I’ve represented the overall landscape in an unbiased way. I've been working on this specific problem for 3+ years & regularly talk to teams who use GitHub with notebooks.

[1] https://nbdime.readthedocs.io

Interesting they mentioned Jupyter Notebooks but not NBDime https://github.com/jupyter/nbdime which is a Jupyter plugin specifically to address this problem. Without it, diffing notebooks is not feasible.

A bit off-topic but someone might know; I'm working with jupyter notebook files (ipynb) which are basically json files. Git diff is very noisy so there's nbdime which works great in the CLI. Is there a way to have Magit aware of its integration with git diff?

I use nbdime which allows you to ignore parts of a notebook (e.g. outputs) when diffing.