Ask HN: Are there any good Diff tools for Jupyter Notebooks?

1. jupytext

   1 22 6,811 8.8 Python

   Jupyter Notebooks as Markdown Documents, Julia, Python or R scripts

   

   You can use jupytext to maintain dual .py/.ipynb representation of notebooks and keep both versions in sync:

   https://github.com/mwouts/jupytext/blob/main/docs/paired-not...

   It works both ways, it can update the .py file each time you save the notebook, or you can edit the .py file and have the jupytext command line tool update the .ipynb.

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3. jupyter_ascending

   2 6 444 4.5 Python

   Ascend your Jupyter Notebook usage

   

4. nbstripout

   3 4 1,302 6.8 Python

   strip output from Jupyter and IPython notebooks

   

   I used something as a precommit hook in the past that remove plots and other rendered content and only kept text and code in git index. I'm almost sure it was https://github.com/kynan/nbstripout but it's been a while and I could be wrong.

   Once the hook was in place git diff worked well enough to not need any other diffing tool.

5. jupyter-vim-binding

   4 5 1,921 0.0 JavaScript

   Discontinued Jupyter meets Vim. Vimmer will fall in love.

   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.

6. vscode-jupyter

   5 32 1,356 9.2 TypeScript

   VS Code Jupyter extension

   

   I wish for a simple option in VS Code: On close of a Jupyter Notebook clear its output. Or something that separate the display of the output from the saved file (Still `ipnyb` file). See [1].

   [1]: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-jupyter/issues/9514

7. jupyterlab-git

   6 7 1,498 7.8 TypeScript

   A Git extension for JupyterLab

   

8. jupyterlab-gitplus

   7 7 118 4.7 TypeScript

   JupyterLab extension to create GitHub commits & pull requests

   

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10. nbdime

    8 7 2,724 6.9 TypeScript

    Tools for diffing and merging of Jupyter notebooks.

    

    [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

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