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+{
+  "path": "../../../examples/quickstart/quickstart.ipynb",
+  "extra-media": ["../../../examples/quickstart/"]
+}
diff --git a/examples/quickstart/quickstart.ipynb b/examples/quickstart/quickstart.ipynb
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+{
+ "cells": [
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "id": "50bf2ecd",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "## A quick start example"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "abb6ce5e-4199-4989-9ea2-60dbf49a28ee",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "from ipyflex import FlexLayout\n",
+    "import ipywidgets as ipw"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "id": "5d41f688-c3fc-4cd9-92ae-c23cdb177a82",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "### Create the widget dictionary for FlexLayout"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "0ab108e9-15e9-4416-ba14-d13187d2f3e3",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "widgets = {\n",
+    "    'Widget 1' : ipw.HTML('<h1>Widget 1</h1>'),\n",
+    "    'Widget 2' : ipw.HTML('<h1>Widget 2</h1>'),\n",
+    "    'Widget 3' : ipw.HTML('<h1>Widget 3</h1>'),\n",
+    "    'Widget 4' : ipw.HTML('<h1>Widget 4</h1>')\n",
+    "}"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "id": "c7873e0b-f17c-4d79-8d3b-653ea9b5cf04",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "### Initialize an empty dashboard"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "3d447fb5-cd59-4676-9503-e7ca96248d15",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "FlexLayout(widgets, style={'height':'400px'})"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "id": "0974fac0-3992-47e0-ac51-7eef07dcabf0",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "### Load saved template with a non-editable dashboard"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "10f6ef62-22ed-4a54-88a3-2c2507dca861",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "FlexLayout(widgets, style={'height':'400px'}, template='quickstart.json', editable=False)"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "c00447f7-018d-46fd-a030-fc05c8c4337d",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": []
+  }
+ ],
+ "metadata": {
+  "kernelspec": {
+   "display_name": "Python 3 (ipykernel)",
+   "language": "python",
+   "name": "python3"
+  },
+  "language_info": {
+   "codemirror_mode": {
+    "name": "ipython",
+    "version": 3
+   },
+   "file_extension": ".py",
+   "mimetype": "text/x-python",
+   "name": "python",
+   "nbconvert_exporter": "python",
+   "pygments_lexer": "ipython3",
+   "version": "3.9.7"
+  }
+ },
+ "nbformat": 4,
+ "nbformat_minor": 5
+}
diff --git a/examples/quickstart/quickstart.json b/examples/quickstart/quickstart.json
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