Grand opening (ETA Sep 2023) checklist

[lihebi]

For the grand opening, we need to make sure the servers are properly structured:

Majors:

• @lihebi Yjs as the source of truth #331
• @lihebi Separate web/api server and runtime server (in k8s spawner) #332
• @lihebi Local desktop app with file-backend to be compatible with VSCode workflow
• @lihebi native runtime feat: add native runtime spawner #501
• Selective View for scaling

Minors:

• multiple language kernels
• cross-language runtime
• more arrow types
• [note-taking] more node types: image, video, pdf
• [note-taking] import pdfs (e.g., for slides)

Company goals:

• paper revision
• pricing plans & enterprise cloud & security & privacy

Other:

• Hopping between pods/scopes completely in keyboard operations (Command mode and edit mode #88 and keyboard short cut to move focus/editing to a new cell #87). Partially done in feat: add jump between pods #327.
• Better auto-layout Thought-in-progress: better and finer-granularity layout assistance #338
• Better contextual zooming, including Manual collapse/expand for contextual zooming #307, Font size for summaries in contextual zooming  #316, and Toolbars shrunk after contextually zoomed out #317
• LaTeX support in richtext pods #167

Mostly done with pending bugs:

• Import and export from and to Jupyter and Python files. Codepod-exported ipynb not compliant to NBFormat 4.0 #411 [UI] Jupyter Notebook export in Frontend #343 [UI] Support exporting pod stdout and result #399 [UI] Import Jupyter notebook  #369

Minors or stretch goals

• Simple snapshot-based history, undo and redo.
• One button to run the entire notebook
• Buffer pip-installed packages
• A file browser

[lihebi]

The CLI app in this repo is ready to release to the general public.

Install:

> npm install -g codepod

Use:

> codepod /path/to/repo
# ... 🚀 Server ready at http://localhost:4001

Open this URL in your browser to see the app.

Features:

1. Local file saving: The files will be saved to the directory /path/to/repo/codepod.bin|json. The codepod.bin is the source of truth, and codepod.json is for human-readability only.
2. Local runtime: the spawner will use the Python and ipykernel installed on your host system. You can directly use your GPU server.

[lihebi]

We're not going to really "grand-open" by "advertising" it though, because we're switching to developing the SaaS app further.