jupyterlab/README.md

@jupyterlab/debugger

A JupyterLab debugger UI extension

This extension is under active development and is not yet available.

Prerequisites

• JupyterLab 1.1+
• xeus-python 0.6.5+

Development

# Create a new conda environment
conda create -n jupyterlab-debugger -c conda-forge jupyterlab nodejs xeus-python=0.6 ptvsd

# Activate the conda environment
conda activate jupyterlab-debugger

# Install dependencies
jlpm

# Build TypeScript source
jlpm build

# Link your development version of the extension with JupyterLab
jupyter labextension link .

# Rebuild TypeScript source after making changes
jlpm build

# Rebuild JupyterLab after making any changes
jupyter lab build

# Start JupyterLab with the kernel logs enabled and watch mode enabled
XEUS_LOG=1 jupyter lab --no-browser --watch

Tests

To run the tests:

# [Optional] to enable the logs for xeus-python
export XEUS_LOG=1

jlpm run test

To run tests for a specific test suite name:

jlpm run test --testNamePattern=<regex>

To run tests for a specific test module name:

jlpm run test --testPathPattern=<regex>

Inspecting debug messages

The kernelspy extension for JupyterLab can be used to inspect the debug messages sent between the debugger UI and the kernel.

To install it:

jupyter labextension install jupyterlab-kernelspy