Using qgrid along with creating webapps with Binder. Also have Seaborn, VPython, and other useful dependencies

This repository demonstrates how to use both qgrid and appmode with Binder.

qgrid is an interactive grid for sorting, filtering, and editing DataFrames in Jupyter notebooks, and is described here. This is my fork demonstrating use in Binder and came from here.

Appmode is similar to how Shiny apps work in R. Using the appmode Jupyter plugin, a notebook's code will be run, and then only the markdown cells and code outputs will be shown.

You can check out the appmode repository here: https://github.com/oschuett/appmode

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Post-Fork Differences

• After forking the the base qgrid-notebooks example, I added appmode and my other favorite dependencies as in my appmode repo. In order to add appmode and the ones possible to the environment.yml and then tested. Seemed to work as appmode worked. Finally to finish adding those dependences I like, at first I tried adding a postBuild file with exectuable permissions (see below) to add the dependencies conda cannot handle, but that didn't work for some reason. While researching that I found a better way as described under Issues.

Issues

• I had tried adding qgrid to my working appmode repo but that didn't seem to work. I didn't see any error reports, but the dataframes weren't being rendered as they were at the demo hosted here and launchable via here.

• I hadn't caught before now that postBuild files need to be executable. However, just adding that within my fork using the github site using web interface was causing the postBuild file to not be executable according to error in log file and it was referring me to here . Turns out I don't think files you make on github site using web interface can be set to be exectuable (or it least I couldn't fugure it out). My solution was to clone the repo, add the empty postBuild file with touch, set the permission accoring to here, commit, and push back to the remote master. While that woked to change the permissions and that error disappeared, I got another one about not being able to run the code in the postBuild file that was copied exactly from the appmode repo. While looking into it, I saw that I could I could actually add the items that conda doesn't handle but pip does to the environment.yml using the solution here.

• appmode breaks the use of the technique described by harshil's answer here for hiding all code cells with a toggle button.