demo VS thebe

> I would love to see a guide to how to use this to transparently display where files are stored [...]

I'm not 100% sure I understand your request-for-guide, but if you create your own repo based on the jupyterlite/demo template, you can then put your notebooks in `content` dir[1] and they will automatically become available. The CI build step that does this is here[2]. So in some sense you don't need a guide, it just works ;)

[1] https://github.com/jupyterlite/demo/tree/main/content

[2] https://github.com/jupyterlite/demo/blob/main/.github/workfl...

There was some work (and POC) on getting pyodide to work as a thebe backend. You can check out this thread: https://github.com/executablebooks/thebe/issues/465 and other issues/PRs backlinked to it. I don't think anything like that has shipped yet, but definitely worth exploring (in the meantime the usual mybinder backend[1] for jupyter books works great, i.e. you don't have to host yourself).

[1] https://jupyterbook.org/en/stable/interactive/launchbuttons....

https://github.com/tum-pbs/pbdl-book/blob/main/_toc.yml and all the config is in one file: https://github.com/tum-pbs/pbdl-book/blob/main/_config.yml (the build system leverages Sphinx which is the docs workhorse in the Python world)

One of the coolest things is the "Launcher" option which gives readers the options to "run" any notebook interactively (using the rocket button in the top right). It's a one-line config https://github.com/tum-pbs/pbdl-book/blob/main/_config.yml#L... A similar config would enable the "Launch in Pybinder" option which is a free ephemeral jupyter provider, see https://mybinder.org/

This "execute anywhere" option is nicely abstracted away as the `thiebe` library, and there is even POC work to run a pyodide kernel (https://github.com/executablebooks/thebe/issues/465) so soon all of this goodness will work offline in your browser!

As an educator, it's hard not to get excited about the future, given the pace at which learning/teaching tooling is developing!