Convert or add anywidget implementation(?)

[cmdcolin]

The anywidget platform is created by member of gosling @manzt https://blog.jupyter.org/anywidget-jupyter-widgets-made-easy-164eb2eae102

Would be interesting if jbrowse-jupyter could use...I think I mentioned it to @garrettjstevens and it could even bypass some of the limitations of the dash widget system regarding the iframe maybe...

[teresam856]

Maybe we can make a prototype of a widget instead of JBrowse jupyter relying on dash jbrowse ?

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The anywidget platform is created by member of gosling @manzt https://github.com/manzt https://blog.jupyter.org/anywidget-jupyter-widgets-made-easy-164eb2eae102

Would be interesting if jbrowse-jupyter could use...I think I mentioned it to @garrettjstevens https://github.com/garrettjstevens and it could even bypass some of the limitations of the dash widget system regarding the iframe maybe...

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[cmdcolin]

specific limitation mentioned by garrett

window.google not accessible via dash because it's in an iframe

some code for igv-notebook has an example of detecting thing. not sure how solid it is but it is able to do so because it is not in dash

https://github.com/igvteam/igv-notebook/blob/main/igv_notebook/js/localNotebookFile.js

[cmdcolin]

another method (possible dash alternative here) from @garrettjstevens https://jupyterlab.readthedocs.io/en/latest/extension/virtualdom.html

[cmdcolin]

possibly analyze this package and JBrowseR, see how much can be shared

and github action to auto-update

[cmdcolin]

"serveKernelPortAsIframe used by dash"

[cmdcolin]

trying out anywidget at hackathon and it is quite easy to get use, I would say it is a great option

additional topic of exploration is that the developer of anywidget said you can implement a 'generic-filehandle' style filehandle that directly communicates with rpc which i think really helps the 'story' of jbrowse in a notebook by accessing jupyter data more or less directly instead of requiring "urls to files"

[cmdcolin]

a point of reference here https://github.com/manzt/pygv/