mercury VS jupyter_console

I'm build dashboards in Jupyter Lab. My plotting libraries are Altair, matplotlib, seaborn, Plotly - all work well in notebook.

My favorite is Altair. It provides interactivity for charts, so you can move/zoom your plots and have tooltips. It is much lighter than Plotly after saving the notebook to ipynb file. Altair charts looks much better than in matplotlib. One drawback, that exporting to PDF doesn't work. To serve notebook as dashboard with code hidden, I use Mercury framework, you can check example https://runmercury.com/tutorials/vega-altair-dashboard/

disclaimer: I'm author of Mercury framework https://github.com/mljar/mercury

Web App is using two open-source packages that I've created:

- MLJAR AutoML - Python package for AutoML on tabular data https://github.com/mljar/mljar-supervised

- Mercury - framework for converting Jupyter Notebooks into Web App https://github.com/mljar/mercury

You can run Web App locally. What is more, you can adjust notebook's code for your needs. For example, you can set different validation strategies or evalutaion metrics or longer training times. The notebooks in the repo are good starting point for you to develop more advanced apps.

The GitHub repository https://github.com/mljar/mercury

We are working on open-source web framework Mercury that converts Python notebooks to Web Apps.

It is very opinionated:

- it has no callbacks - we automatically re-execute cells below updated widget

- it has no layout widgets, all input widgets are always in the left sidebar

Thanks to above decisions you don't need to change notebook's code to have web app and fit to the framework.

The simplicity of the framework is very important to us. We also care about deployment simplicity. That's why we created a shared hosting service called Mercury Cloud. You can deploy notebook by uploading a file.

The GitHub repository https://github.com/mljar/mercury

Documentation https://RunMercury.com/docs/

Mercury Cloud https://cloud.runmercury.com

Analysis was done in Jupyter Notebook with Python 3.10, Pandas, Matplotlib, wordcloud and Mercury framework.

Analysis was done in Jupyter Notebook with Python 3.10 kernel, Pandas, Matplotlib, wordcloud and Mercury framework to share notebook as a web application with widgets and code hidden. Gif created in Canva.

Sounds like you'd be interested in jupyter-console, which lets you do something like ilua for any language that has a Jupyter kernel. Well, in theory; the one language kernel I use that would really benefit from it, F# (which has a pretty shit command-line repl) doesn't work correctly. It's flawless with the OCaml kernel, but there isn't much point to running that one on the terminal considering utop is insanely good already.

You likely want to use something like https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter_console, or ipykernel directly to have a persistent python process. One issue is that shells are text based, so you have to do a lot of serialisation/deserialisation.

But honestly at that point I would just look into https://xon.sh/ that blends Python and Shell together. IPython and Xonsh devs are friends, so if you need anything from one into the other it's likely doable.