Jupyter Extensions

[mishaschwartz]

To improve the user experience on Marble jupyterlab servers. We can write some custom jupyterlab frontend extensions (https://jupyter-notebook.readthedocs.io/en/stable/extending/frontend_extensions.html).

Some ideas for possible extensions include:

• Interactive STAC search that let's users build stac search queries using widgets like:
  • map of the world to select geographic extent
  • calendar to select time range
  • dropdown lists to select from variables
  • etc.
• Magpie login (for use outside of the marble jupyterlab environment):
  • allows a user to type their username and password into a textbox (neither is saved in the actual jupyter notebook)
  • they are then logged in through magpie and a requests.Session object is returned populated with the login cookies from Magpie
  • this allows users to share notebooks to be run offline without revealing their username and password
• etc.

We may be able to figure out other possible useful extensions from user interviews.

Deliverables:

• jupyterlab frontend extensions (one for each idea above)

Participants/Roles:

• Shruti Katkar: UX research, user interviews, wireframe design
• Alex Yu: extension development