jupyterlab/tutorial/extensions_user.md

Extensions User Guide

JupyterLab extensions add functionality to the JupyterLab application. They can provide new file viewer types, launcher activities, and new Notebook output renderers for example.

The base JupyterLab application comes with core set of extensions, which provide the Notebook, Terminal, Text Editor, etc. New extensions can be installed into the application using the command:

jupyter labextension install <foo>

Where <foo> is a valid JupyterLab extension specifier. This specifier is defined by the extension author in their installation instructions.

The currently installed extensions can be listed by running the command:

jupyter labextension list

An installed extension can be uninstalled by running the command:

jupyter labextension uninstall <bar>

Where <bar> is the name of the extension, as printed in the extension list.

Advanced usage

The behavior of the application can be customized through configuration. The configuration is stored by default in <sys-prefix>/etc/jupyter/labconfig/. In this directory, we use build_config.json and page_config.json. The configuration directory can be overridden using --lab-config-dir in any of the JupyterLab commands. The build_config.json stores the location of the build directory in location (defaults to <sys-prefix>/share/jupyter/lab), as well as installed_extensions and linked_extensions metadata. The page_config.json data is used to provide config data to the application environment. For example, the ignoredPlugins data is used to ignore registered plugins by the name of the token they provide.