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Overview
JupyterLab is the next generation user interface for Project Jupyter
JupyterLab goes beyond the classic Jupyter Notebook by providing a flexible and extensible web application with a set of reusable components. You can arrange multiple notebooks, text editors, terminals, output areas, and custom components using tabs/panels and collapsible sidebars. These components are carefully designed to enable you to use them together (can send code from a file to a code console with a keystroke) or on their own (move cells around a notebook using drag-and-drop) to support novel data-driven workflows.
JupyterLab has full support for Jupyter Notebook documents. In addition, it offers other models of interactive computing:
- [Code Consoles]() provide transient scratchpads for running code interactively, with full support for rich output.
- [Kernel backed documents]() allow code in any text file (markdown, python, R, LaTeX, etc.) to be run interactively in any Jupyter kernel.
JupyterLab also offers a unified model for handling rich output and various file formats. This allows data in just about any format (images, CSV, JSON, markdown, PDF, Vega, Vega-Lite, etc.) to be opened as a file, or returned by a Kernel as output. See [File and output formats]() for more information.
Design principles
JupyterLab should:
- Use the same server as the classic Jupyter Notebook.
- Use the same notebook document format as the classic Jupyter Notebook.