The Panel library is a complex project which provides a wide range of data interfaces and an extensible set of plotting backends, which means the development and testing process involves a wide set of libraries.
The Panel source code is stored in a Git source control repository. The first step to working on Panel is to install Git on to your system. There are different ways to do this depending on whether, you are using Windows, OSX, or Linux.
To install Git on any platform, refer to the Installing Git section of the Pro Git Book.
Developing Panel requires a wide range of packages that are not easily and quickly available using pip. To make this more manageable, core developers rely heavily on the conda package manager for the free Anaconda Python distribution. However, conda
can also install non-Python package dependencies, which helps streamline Panel development greatly. It is strongly recommended that anyone developing Panel also use conda
, and the remainder of the instructions will assume that conda
is available.
To install Conda on any platform, see the Download conda section of the conda documentation
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The source code for the Panel project is hosted on GitHub. To clone the source repository, issue the following command:
git clone https://github.com/holoviz/panel.git
This will create a panel
directory at your file system location. This panel
directory is referred to as the source checkout for the remainder of this document.
Since Panel interfaces with a large range of different libraries the full test suite requires a wide range of dependencies. To make it easier to install and run different parts of the test suite across
different platforms Panel uses a library called pyctdev
to make things more consistent and general. To start with cd
into the panel directory and set up conda using the following commands:
cd panel
conda install -c pyviz "pyctdev>0.5.0"
Once pyctdev is available and you are in the cloned panel repository you can set up an environment with:
doit env_create -c pyviz/label/dev -c conda-forge --name=panel_dev --python=3.9
Specify the desired Python version, currently Panel officially supports Python 3.7, 3.8, 3.9 and 3.10. Once the environment has been created you can activate it with:
conda activate panel_dev
To perform an editable install of Panel, including all the dependencies required to run the full unit test suite, run the following:
doit develop_install -c pyviz/label/dev -c conda-forge -c bokeh -o build -o tests -o recommended -o ui
The above command installs Panel's dependencies using conda, then performs a pip editable install of Panel. If it fails, nodejs>=14.0.0
may be missing from your environment, fix it with conda install -c conda-forge nodejs
then rerun above command.
If you are running UI tests or intend to use the Panel Preview feature in Jupyter you must enable the server extension. To enable the classic notebook server extension:
jupyter serverextension enable panel.io.jupyter_server_extension --sys-prefix
For Jupyter Server:
jupyter server extension enable panel.io.jupyter_server_extension --sys-prefix
Panel uses pre-commit to automatically apply linting to Panel code. If you intend to contribute to Panel we recommend you enable it with:
pre-commit install
This will ensure that every time you make a commit linting will automatically be applied.
Panel ships with a number of custom Bokeh models, which have both Python and Javascript components. When developing Panel these custom models have to be compiled. This happens automatically with pip install -e .
or python setup.py develop
, however when runnning actively developing you can rebuild the extension with panel build panel
. The build
command is just an alias for bokeh build
; see
the Bokeh developer guide for more information about developing bokeh models.
Just like any other Javascript (or Typescript) library Panel defines a package.json
and package-lock.json
files. When adding, updating or removing a dependency in the package.json file ensure you commit the changes to the package-lock.json
after running npm install
.
Panel bundles external resources required for custom models and templates into the panel/dist
directory. The bundled resources have to be collected whenever they change, so rerun pip install -e .
or python setup.py develop
whenever you change one of the following:
- A new model is added with a
__javascript_raw__
declaration or an existing model is updated - A new template with a
_resources
declaration is added or an existing template is updated - A CSS file in one of template directories (
panel/template/*/
) is added or modified
You will likely want to check out the :ref:devguide_testing
guide. Meanwhile, if you have any problems with the steps here, please visit our Discourse.
- Dev version of Panel Site
- Use this to explore new, not yet released features and docs
- Panel master branch on Binder
- Use this to quickly explore and manually test the newest panel features in a fresh environment with all requirements installed.
- Replace
master
withname-of-other-branch
for other branches.
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