Purpose and Use Cases for ipylab

[jpcaram]

It's unclear to me what the purpose of this library is. I'm not sure what would be the right use cases. Is it supposed to be an alternative to writing a Jupyter Frontend plugin? How is it better or worse than writing a plugin? Is it just a proof of concept? The motivation for my question(s) is about making the best use of it.

I believe an answer to this question could be part of the description of the library.

Furthermore, what is the expected or planned future for the library? It seems that is is missing some pieces for it to be appropriate for a production environment, like a Jupyter Server extension that loads a Python kernel, or a way to remove widgets when a kernel is stopped, just to mention a few that come to mind.

Thanks!