How to manage Jupyter Notebook extensions

Though Jupyter Notebook has been continuously improved, still its basic design doesn’t satisfy the majority of developers who got used to modern feature-rich IDEs. This is where notebook extensions (aka nbextensions) come in. Being not officially related to the Jupyter team, they still can make data scientist’s life much-much easier. Below I’ll describe how to install and enable Jupyter Notebook extensions with conda.

First of all, make sure you’re in the base environment:

• Windows: conda activate
• Linux: source activate

Then you can install jupyter_nbextensions_configurator, a jupyter server extension that provides GUI for configuring which nbextensions are enabled. It will also make your life easier:

conda install -c conda-forge jupyter_nbextensions_configurator

Now install Jupyter notebook extensions, copy the nbextensions’ javascript and css files into the jupyter server’s search directory, and configure jupyter:

conda install -c conda-forge jupyter_contrib_nbextensions
jupyter contrib nbextension install --user

That’s it. Restart your Jupyter Notebook and you’ll see a Nbextensions tab where you can enable and disable installed notebook extensions:

You can also enable/disable extensions in the command line by the following commands:

jupyter nbextension enable <nbextension require path>
jupyter nbextension disable <nbextension require path>