Run code inline in Atom using Jupyter kernels

https://github.com/nteract/hydrogen

by dkharrat • 10 years ago

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Dawny33• 10 years ago

Super awesome! The gif can do with a better Atom theme, though!

The dark one isn't really ideal for a cell-by-cell Jupyter-like implementation

herrvogel-• 10 years ago

Is there a specific theme you had in mind? Just curious.

glogla• 10 years ago

Many times I wanted to switch from Sublime Text to Atom, but I always went back for some reason (slowness, not remembering open files upon restart, etc). Maybe this will make me swich for good.

eivarv2• 10 years ago

FYI: Sublime Text's plugin API has recently (v. 3118) been updated with some cool new features relating to inline minihtml, which makes something like this more feasible.

While it doesn't currently exist, someone might implement something like this for Sublime Text in the future.

jbrooksuk• 10 years ago

Also, Sublime now has a Phantoms API which lets you insert content after (or blocked) the line.

tomw2005• 10 years ago

The fact that Atom was free and Open Source is mostly why I switched. You'll be happy to find that it does restore your last session as default now (add in the Project Manager plugin to make switching between projects easier too). Personally I haven't noticed any speed issues but YMMV.

denfromufa2• 10 years ago

I regularly about few hundred MB files in Sublime. The only alternative is VIM with plugins.

cheez2• 10 years ago

This is really cool and I think over time, Atom is going to become really compelling once their org mode implementation or its moral equivalent gets some legs.

I've used the Jupyter emacs integration (https://github.com/millejoh/emacs-ipython-notebook) but in the end, I stuck with org mode.

For an example of what you can do in org mode (in emacs), here is part of a "dashboard" I created for one of my products: https://i.imgur.com/QUFbIBk.png

And an example of how I design: https://i.imgur.com/MeRYn1L.png

You can essentially use org-babel to recreate an approximation to the notebook environment which si cool

duerrp• 10 years ago

Org mode rocks! And with ob-ipython you basically get same functionality as the notebook...

https://github.com/gregsexton/ob-ipython

cheez2• 10 years ago

Ah yes, that's the one I tried.

pjmlp5• 10 years ago

Hydrogen was inspired by Bret Victor's ideas about the power of instantaneous feedback and the design of Light Table.

Good work.

Although Bret Victor deserves lots of appreciation for his work, most of his ideas are actually how Xerox PARC workstations and Lisp Machines used to enable developers to program more productively.

So if anything the best part of his work is making young generations aware of what the industry lost when those systems failed to gain wide market acceptance.

ZenoArrow2• 10 years ago

If you try hard enough, you could tie any new development to the past.

Lisp may have been the first language with a REPL (as far as I'm aware it was either Lisp or Forth), but REPLs have evolved over the years, and plenty of modern programmers were familiar with REPLs before Bret Victor's views on instant feedback became popular.

pjmlp5• 10 years ago

The way one interacts with the Xerox PARC and Lisp Machines environments is much richer experience than a plain REPL.

It was a graphical REPL that could embedd live objects, which were still active to further interactive changes.

Also the ability to have the whole OS exposed via the REPLs is hardly available in modern systems.

Not alk REPLs are made alike.

preek• 10 years ago

Yet, if you do know Lisp, you realize that not too many languages feature a true REPL with the R not just reading in Text that gets evaluated, but actually being a Reader.

So, we actually did lose some things with the new and shiny REPLs - Macros.

No debating your statement that there are other good programming environments with other shiny features^^

blahi• 10 years ago

VS Code?

baldfat• 10 years ago

I can't see why this wouldn't work just as well.

I certainly would be interested. I started using VS Code more and more and VIM less and less :(

babo• 10 years ago

Works fine after adding a minimal config {"magicpython": "Python 3"} at the Kernel Mappings setting and setting PYTHONPATH at the command line when running atom. It's kinda cool to manage your kernels from the editor!

nickjj2• 10 years ago

This looks cool but how does this translate to being beneficial in real world web applications?

Often times the result of running some bit of code is to see the end result in a browser because the code resulted in sending a bunch of HTML or JSON as a response.

Also in the above case your code isn't self contained to a block of code. Chances are you have a web server, along with a database and cache server. Most of my projects are also encapsulated in half a dozen Docker containers. How is this plugin going to know what to do with that?

Starting up an entire stack of programs to live preview a few lines of code would end up being slower than just saving the file and reloading the browser to see feedback.

minimaxir• 10 years ago

Jupyter Notebooks are more for statistical, iterative coding, not running an application.

nickjj2• 10 years ago

Thanks. I wasn't aware of what Jupyter was.

I only glanced the top of the README which compares the project to what Light Table was trying to solve and then showed an animated gif of inline code evaluation examples.

vanous• 10 years ago

I have been enjoying Python (or any other external command) execution on whole file or on selected text block in Vim and it has been great, even for some specialized mini applications and custom docbook/markup formatting. The ability to have graphics is intriguing, will give atom a try.

Wonnk13• 10 years ago

Advantages of this over running a repl in an Emacs buffer and evaluating code that way? I've never tried Atom.

throwanem2• 10 years ago

Same question, but s/running repl in an Emacs buffer/authoring in org-babel/ - I have a hard time seeing Jupyter and friends as anything other than a subset of what people have been using org-babel to do for years, and I'm not really sure whether that's an accurate perception or not.

ced4• 10 years ago

Thank you for the babel reference, it looks interesting. From what I can tell, it's pretty similar. In a notebook I'm directly editing the code and seeing the results immediately, instead of switching back and forth between emacs and a browser window. That looks like a pretty big win for interactive development. Is there any babel feature that you think is missing in Jupyter?

peatmoss• 10 years ago

As an org-babeler myself, and someone who has also used RMarkdown and Jupyter notebooks, I feel like these newcomers are quite underpowered compared to Org. Not to mention that mixing languages in a single doc is not possible / cumbersome with the others.

I do recognize, however, that being tied to emacs (the only complete implementation of org-mode / org-Babel today) is a liability. I wonder if some smart person will figure out a portable implementation in something else. Of course, it won't match the flexibility or extensibility of emacs, but perhaps it can still surpass Jupyter / RMarkdown.

I mention RMarkdown together with Jupyter simply because org-mode / org-Babel nearly addresses both the dynamic notebook use case as well as the document publishing use case (including nice academic feature like cross-references, which aren't supported in Markdown).

olsgaard4• 10 years ago

Honestly, I would say the main advantage is you don't have to learn Emacs.

Emacs is a very polarising environment and there are many programmers for whom it is simply not the right code editor.

kabdib• 10 years ago

The MPW Shell (the Macintosh Programmer's Workshop) had a feature like this; every editor window was also a shell command window. You could select some text and run it as a shell command.

I regularly included build steps as comments in the first few lines of C and Pascal sources. No makefile necessary.

You could also arrange for code to run on actions like 'cd' (to set up environments, for instance; your editor window could become a context of readily selectable commands based on the directory you were in).

Oh, and 1987.

ced4• 10 years ago

I haven't tried either, but atom-notebook (https://github.com/jupyter/atom-notebook) looks more promising to me. I hope they can integrate it well.

With hydrogen, are there cells? What happens if I want to rerun everything? Will I get no output except the output of the last line?

robinson-wall• 10 years ago

I think they both have a place - atom-notebook (like the web version) for more structured use with cells, and hydrogen for ad-hoc ("Will this work?") anonymous execution while you're editing.

Will I get no output except the output of the last line?

If the return value is one line, it prints neatly after the executed block. If it's more than one it inserts a little pane with the results, with options to copy the data or open it in a new buffer.

ced4• 10 years ago

I agree, it looks like Hydrogen is a nice replacement for the REPL, whereas notebooks are a completely different workflow.

Chris2048• 10 years ago

I could never get this to work in Ubuntu 14.1 :/

There are issues with Jupyter in that distro too, But hydrogen had some nps js error regarding a missing lib or something. So many stacks in these things...

machbio• 10 years ago

Jupyter released a cool computational environment(basically an IDE like Rstudio Web) - https://github.com/jupyter/jupyterlab

There is already discussion about Jupyter lab here on the front page - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12098180

kdtg• 10 years ago

For vim people living in terminal, I suggest cellmode plugin for vim (https://github.com/julienr/vim-cellmode). You can split tmux window into vim + ipython panes, and trigger the evaluation of selected vim lines by pressing Ctrl-C.

leetrout• 10 years ago

If you're spending a lot of time doing data science and if you might be missing R studio for Python I work for Yhat and we make a product called Rodeo http://rodeo.yhat.com/

olsgaard4• 10 years ago

What are the major benefits of Rodeo compared to Spyder?

olsgaard4• 10 years ago

What Jupyter Notebook is missing is a good text/code editor and what good text/code editors are missing is Jupyter Notebook like write and execute.

This is the first example I've seen of the power that using Electron in Atom can give, and it makes me super exited!

brians• 10 years ago

What's missing from Edwin or Emacs with SLIME? Support for Python, obviously, but—that's solvable. Is there a more fluid execution environment in Jupyter?

denfromufa2• 10 years ago

Have you tried PyCharm with jupyter notebook?

olsgaard4• 10 years ago

No, I didn't know they worked together. I'll have a look!

mbm• 10 years ago

For any of those who may be doing Elixir development, https://github.com/pprzetacznik/IElixir works perfectly with this.

mungoid2• 10 years ago

Suuure, now this gets posted after I JUST found out about it yesterday in a comment about the JupyterLab link.. Go ahead, rub it in more.. Seriously though, I never thought to look for something like this so I'm happy more people are finding out about it too. Even if there may be better alternatives, more people now know to look.

mungoid2• 10 years ago

So I know Sage is quite a bit more hefty than the standard Jupyter kernel, but I wonder if this could work with the Sage kernel? I quickly attempted it with no luck but assume with the right setup it could. Maybe?

projectramo• 10 years ago

Is there any way you could have this running on the cloud (in Digital Ocean or AWS)?

Suppose you had Jupyter installed using the following process:

https://www.dataquest.io/blog/digitalocean-docker-data-scien...

Run code inline in Atom using Jupyter kernels

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