Try out react based rendering possibly?

[saulshanabrook]

I wanted to leave this commit here, where I started to make a go at refactoring the outputs at least to be wrapped in React components, to allow easier virtualization: saulshanabrook/jupyterlab@f110812

I stopped after a bit, because I wanted to first create the benchmarks, and then once those were done I was busy.

[saulshanabrook]

To note, the goal with that commit was to try to move React as a layer in the rendering that wouldn't be visible at all to end users, i.e. keep the public APIs exactly the same, but just swap in React for Lumino for rendering outputs (and possibly other parts of the notebook).

What that means, if we moved forward on this approach, is that we would likely have many sandwhiches of react - lumino - react - lumino - etc, if we gaurantee keeping the public APIs still lumino based.

[echarles]

Sweet. Will look at that and see if we can upgrade that with react-virtualized or react-window

[saulshanabrook]

Note that I never tried this out, so it most likely doesn't work at the moment!

[echarles]

@saulshanabrook I have taken over your work and pushed more in https://github.com/datalayer-contrib/jupyterlab/tree/react-notebook

The basic stream kernel messages are now rendered in the react output area.

[saulshanabrook]

Nice!