Peter Parente

At one point, installing using sudo npm was bad. I don't know if this is still the case. Try using `sudo -H` per this article: http://hood.ie/blog/why-you-shouldnt-use-sudo-with-npm.html

I'll draft a PR during my plane ride today and ping others to comment.

This is probably the same situation as https://github.com/jupyter-incubator/dashboards_server/issues/301 where the custom widget JS is not bundled with the dashboard server and therefore is not available in the frontend without manual...

Mathjax is not available in the dashboard server to render latex.

The dashboard server is a nodejs app. It requires a running jupyter kernel gateway instance. I'm not clear where the notebook server fits into your setup.

The notebook server has auth mechanisms mean for users such as password, cookies, and temp keys. The kernel gateway is more attuned to programmatic auth and access via API tokens....

* https://github.com/oschuett/appmode is a new project for hiding the chrome of classic notebook server and only exposing the UI defined by interactive widgets. * NBviewer running in local mode works...

What state is being persisted? If it's the desired state of the explorer widget, then it really is shared across users as the initial state, right? > We currently don't...

> This is all client-side code, so I'm not sure an env var will be helpful. OK. > If it's the desired state of the explorer widget, then it really...

> This should mostly just require updates to the /public/js/kernel.js file. Does the logic for calling `/api/spawn` before start kernel really belong in the browser frontend where we have to...