JupyterLab vs Pyodide Console
JupyterLab
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| Figure | JupyterLab | Pyodide Console |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | Yes | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 0 |
| Spec score · Coding Playgrounds | 9.1 (#9) | 7.1 (#126) |
| Browser support | The documentation lists current Firefox, Chrome and Safari versions as known working browsers. | The documentation recommends using a recent browser and lists Firefox 112, Chrome 112, and Safari 16.4 as tested minimum versions. |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Intended users | JupyterLab is focused on interactive, exploratory computing and is suited to workflows such as data science, scientific computing, computational journalism, and machine learning. | The project describes itself as useful for running Python packages in browser applications and identifies scientific Python packages among its supported ports. |
| License | JupyterLab source code is released under the revised BSD license, commonly identified as BSD-3-Clause. | Pyodide uses the Mozilla Public License Version 2.0. |
| Self-hosting | JupyterLab is installed and launched locally with the `jupyter lab` command, so organizations can operate it on their own computers or servers. | Downloaded Pyodide files can be served locally or from a static hosting service configured with the required WebAssembly MIME type and CORS headers. |
| What it does | JupyterLab is a web-based environment for interactive and reproducible computing with notebooks, terminals, text editors, file browsing and rich outputs. | Pyodide is a Python distribution for browsers and Node.js based on WebAssembly and Emscripten. |
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In their own words
JupyterLab
JupyterLab is a web-based environment for interactive work with notebooks, code and data. Its workspace brings notebooks, text editors, terminals and custom components together in tabs and splitters. Code consoles act as scratchpads, and kernel-backed documents can run code in files such as Markdown, Python, R and LaTeX. It supports the .ipynb format used by classic Jupyter Notebook, and can view and edit formats including Markdown, images, CSV, JSON, HTML, LaTeX and PDF. Visualization libraries include matplotlib and Plotly; interactive plots or widgets may require additional packages. Extensions can add themes, viewers, editors, output renderers and interface controls, but can execute code in the browser, server and kernel, so only trusted extensions are advised. Real-time collaboration can be enabled with jupyter_collaboration. JavaScript and HTML outputs from notebooks created elsewhere remain hidden until the notebook is trusted. JupyterLab is free, open-source software under a modified BSD license, installed with pip or via a Homebrew command for macOS and Linux. It runs on Linux, macOS, the web and self-hosted systems.
Pyodide Console
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