![]() Below, I want to provide a glimpse into these features, which not only made me stay with VSCode, but also improved my workflow and my productivity. And I was on the brink of starting the search for another tool all over again right when I heard of “native Notebooks” and started waiting. Several features just did not work in notebooks as you would expect from the way Python scripting worked in VSCode. However, the experience with VSCode didn’t feel complete either. I was rather on a quest for a better option to work with Jupyter Notebooks, which culminated in VSCode. ipynb files via command line as opposed to just double clicking, variable exploration only with code, and code completion either took forever to appear or did not work at all.Īs opposed to Alan, I didn’t stumble upon VSCode by accident. And everything felt just a bit too much effort: opening. Moving on, I couldn’t find these features in JupyterLab either. When I moved from R to Python starting out with the browser interface, I was primed by RStudio and missed features and usability that I considered mandatory for data analytics. Like Alan Jones explained his experience of switching to VSCode as notebook editor, I perceived a similarly low entrance barrier for editing Jupyter Notebooks, while editing notebooks always didn’t feel quite right when using the browser interface or JupyterLab. And the ones that are, feel more intuitive in the latest VSCode version. The Notebooks API brings a variety of new and improved features to VSCode, with some of them being already available in the browser interface and JupyterLab, but some not. ![]() I have been impatiently waiting for these changes that I missed in the Jupyter browser interface and JupyterLab, while they had been announced in multiple vlogs from Microsoft and also been reviewed in their unstable state by Richard So on this towardsdatascience. Working with (Jupyter) Notebooks - Photo by Alejandro Escamilla on UnsplashĪfter more than half a year of waiting for what was then called “native Notebooks”, the now re-branded Notebooks API has finally made it to the standard VSCode version.
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