Clearer instructions in automatically triggering appmode

[JuanCab]

I am having a problem in that I want a Jupyter notebook in a subdirectory of my repo to launch in appmode in Binder and I can NOT seem to find a way to do it. Placing "%2Fapp%2F" before the path to the Jupyter notebook in the urlpath doesn't seem to work. Can you clearly state how to automatically trigger app mode in a doc?

[oschuett]

Placing "%2Fapp%2F" before the path to the Jupyter notebook in the urlpath doesn't seem to work.

Hmm, that's actually exactly how it should work. Can you post your link?

[JuanCab]

I tried testing my notebook at

https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/JuanCab/AstroInteractives/master?filepath=HRdiagram/Interactive_HR_Diagram.ipynb

using

https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/JuanCab/AstroInteractives/master?filepath=%2Fapp%2FHRdiagram/Interactive_HR_Diagram.ipynb

with no success. It results in a "404 : Not Found, You are requesting a page that does not exist!" error whereas the first link works fine.

[oschuett]

You need to fully url-escape the path. Try: https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/JuanCab/AstroInteractives/master?urlpath=%2Fapps%2FHRdiagram%2FInteractive_HR_Diagram.ipynb

Nice notebook btw, brings back some great memories :-)

[JuanCab]

Oh nuts, of course! Thanks! Any chance you could add the ability to launch without editing on? Not sure yet whether I want to risk students (in an Introductory astronomy course) accidentally hitting “Edit” button.

[oschuett]

Yes, you can hide the edit button via the custom.js file. Basically, you have to add a file called .jupyter/custom/custom.js with content $('#appmode-leave').hide(); to your repository.

See also https://github.com/oschuett/appmode#customization .

[joshwapiano]

Hi @oschuett, I'm also having trouble using appmode in Binder! I'm using a test document here as an example - the non-appmode link works fine:
https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/joshwapiano/amrtool/master?filepath=pandas_df_testing_01.ipynb

However changing filepath to urlpath and adding %2Fapps%2F as follows leads to a '404 : Not Found' error.
https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/joshwapiano/amrtool/master?urlpath=%2Fapps%2Fpandas_df_testing_01.ipynb

I tried adding a binder/postBuild file to my repository as is in yours but that completely broke the first link! (I'm also not sure whether that is necessary or not)

could this be because I'm using python 3.7 instead of 3.6?

[djsegal]

Getting same error as everyone else. Binder in question is:

• https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/djsegal/tetris-binder/master?urlpath=%2Fapps%2Ftetris.ipynb
• https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/djsegal/tetris-binder/master?filepath=tetris.ipynb

[oschuett]

@djsegal your issue is most likely caused by the mixing of Conda and pip packages in your environment.yml. Maybe you can install Julia via Conda as well?