Jupyter Notebook

[fdionisi]

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Is your feature request related to a problem?

I'm not sure "Feature Request" is the right thing to do, but I think this is a bit more than just a syntax highlight + LSP.

Every now and then, I go back to VS Code to work with Jupyter notebooks, and it would be nice to stay on Zed (+ collaboration 😙👌).
This task is probably a monumental one, as it also involves a different buffer view and possibly something that could be done by the community (?), but I still want to put it on the radar.

Describe the solution you'd like

It would be great to open Jupyter notebooks directly in Zed and be able to interact with it (adding new blocks, running code, etc.), similarly to what VS Code does.

If applicable, add mockups / screenshots to help present your vision of the feature

[anarchy89]

Is jupyter support with the ability to run the cells going to be implemented ?

[gabrielalexandrelopes]

I would suggest Hydrogen's approach to interface with Jupyter local or remote kernals: https://github.com/nteract/hydrogen

[Tom-Boscher]

I would suggest Hydrogen's approach to interface with Jupyter local or remote kernals: https://github.com/nteract/hydrogen

Hydrogen is definitely a killer feature, it was really awesome to use Hydrogen in Atom!
I would love to see it in Zed.

[mcioffi]

Jupyter notebook support would open up a huge community in Zed, I would certainly be part of the bandwagon if Zed introduced it

[mcioffi]

@mikayla-maki @JosephTLyons, reading the "room temperature gauge" of the data science community, the interest is pretty strong in Zed, generally speaking, re: (zed-industries/extensions#157) , (zed-industries/extensions#136), & (zed-industries/extensions#145) ... doing a first take on jupyter integration with already supported Python in Zed might pave the way for the community for a future feature

[noahgsolomon]

The only reason I haven't moved to Zed is because Jupyter notebooks aren't supported. I'd love to see this :0

[mertdeveci5]

Is there an ETA for compatibility here?

[Tom-Boscher]

I'm looking for people to start working on a integration of nteract Jupyter but I'm a really Rust beginner.

[sa-]

VS Code created some incompatibilities when trying to implement their own version of the notebook frontend resulting in some plotting libraries & widgets not working - among other inconveniences.

I'm not sure if this is possible, but maybe the jupyter installed in the venv could be used to render the notebook?

[gluonfield]

Jupyter notebook support would bring large number of new users to try out Zed. There's probably no other feature with potential to bring so many users.

[baughmann]

100%. I personally am willing to make the trade-off vis-a-vis the quality AI features and the new Composer in Cursor, but I cannot live without notebooks that run against my virtual environment.

[nikhilvishwanath]

I would love to use zed for all of my work but because jupyter notebook is not present not moved to zed fully. it is difficult to go back and forth from vs code to zed.

[ouj]

I just installed Zed this morning and love the style and speed,

but after finding that Notebook is not supported...

I have to go back to VSCode.

[RehmatSChawla]

Ipython notebooks are also an essential part of how many academics (in Physics, Chemistry, Biology, etc) interact with programming, data analysis and presentation. It would definitely be necessary to incorporate ipython notebooks to make the switch to Zed viable for any of them.

[athakur569]

installed Zed. super impressed. found out ipynb not supported. disappointed. back to VS. that was quick. LOL

[JosephTLyons]

Hang in tight! We're working with a contractor to build some of this out!

[Jarrlist]

Glad to see the devs have time to work on this, must be hard because it is such a different buffer from the others in zed currently.
Looking forward to see what you guys have cooked up in the future!

Always fun to see the
"Feature X is the only thing missing for me to make the switch from IDE Y"
line, since that is what literally everyone comment on every feature request ever.

[JonGretar]

Haha. Yeah I'm always surprised to see what features people mention as the deal breaker feature that just make people not consider Zed as a viable alternative without. Rainbow brackets was a common one a while back. No matter which benefits Zed provided or feature was missing, pretty bracket colours was the thing that made them unable to do meaningful work.

Jupyter Notebooks is a different thing. If you are doing data science in a group then it's just not viable to sneak in Zed without it. Unfortunately it's a very niche market so the Zed team just has to focus on the mass coding features first and I am understanding of that fact. Luckily for me then data science has been more of the "side hustle" so it has not bugged me too much.

[Jarrlist]

Yeah very niche.
We used a bit in Labs at the university I went to. Haven't used it much since.

But at work now, I am doing some research where I do not want to recalculate stuff, and would like to plot something at each step of processing, to se that every step is correct. Notebook would be perfect for that so that is how I ended up here. I find the VScode implementation slow and buggy so did not want to use that.

In the mean time I ended up having a few smaller scripts instead. I save plots and variables to disc for the sub steps, and then I have a markdown file that displays everything nicely. Works for now I suppose.

[rgbkrk]

If you want to plot something at each step, trying using the Zed REPL mode. https://zed.dev/docs/repl

You don't get persisted notebooks/outputs with that, but you do get inline plots.

[toihr]

@Jarrlist I would recomend you to try out marimo. Its in a way similar to Jupyter but is reactive. Additionaly marimo notebooks are actualy just .py files with some decorators over functions. So it supports, just edditing the python file in an Editor and have the change be visible in the webinterface (which is also realy well done).

[sean98]

I have tried to use notebooks with the expiremntal flags but for some reasons plots are not working for me (I have only tried with plotly) anyone else had this problem? Is there a way to solve this?

[xujc]

Notebook works by turning on the feature flag.
But figures (with default size) are huge on my MacBook Pro. I guess it's related with the retina display. Don't know how to make it display properly (using a small figsize would result in very large texts in small figures).

[rafaelcn]

have you tried plt.subplots(figsize=(x,y))? here it looks normal if I specify the size

[xujc]

yes, of course. The previous figure used the default figsize (6.4, 4.8). I tried smaller figsizes, but then everything is not normal (too large) except the overall size of the figure.

[JotaRata]

I guess you can also use the dpi argument to control it's size..

But yes, Zed should adjust the figure's size to the width of the window

[victorfernandesraton]

Some things missing for my test

• Every time i load a notebook, i need to select proper virtualenv (Kernel) configurattion
• LSP Servers even start, currently i use ruff and ty

[apoptosis66]

So glad to see some progress on this. Not 100% working but I can at least read my ipynb files which is a huge win for me. Keep up the good work. Not sure if this is right place for testing feedback but here are the Issues I see: 1) pandas DataFrames don't print nicely when the DataFrame var is last item in cell. 2) No way to delete cell. 3) No way to kill running cells. 4) Some cells won't run at all.

[victorfernandesraton]

So glad to see some progress on this. Not 100% working but I can at least read my ipynb files which is a huge win for me. Keep up the good work. Not sure if this is right place for testing feedback but here are the Issues I see: 1) pandas DataFrames don't print nicely when the DataFrame var is last item in cell. 2) No way to delete cell. 3) No way to kill running cells. 4) Some cells won't run at all.

i have tha same issues too

[nealsparadise]

Recently tried enabling the notebook flag and wow ipynb is working able to add new code block and md block as well, able to execute the code. Thanks zed, now no more going back to electron based editor. Only think is deletion of the cell is missing which can be done easily from opening in json and removing any cell block

[tail-call]

hi everyone, i have a question, last week jupyter notebooks worked and when i upgraded to 1.6.3 they no longer load properly, only display as a json file, still have "notebooks": "on" in feature_flags, are they gone or i could be missing something?

[tail-call]

hi @rami-shalhoub @DrBones, thank you very much for your replies, i got them working now

[nealsparadise]

Working for me

[victorfernandesraton]

Stop working for me in this enviroment

Zed: v1.6.3+stable.306.601ecb3ee5c16940191818ee7f244837abf6983c (Zed)
OS: Linux Wayland debian 13
Memory: 15.3 GiB
Architecture: x86_64
GPU: Intel(R) UHD Graphics (ICL GT1) || Intel open-source Mesa driver || Mesa 25.0.7-2Zed: v1.6.3+stable.306.601ecb3ee5c16940191818ee7f244837abf6983c (Zed)
OS: Linux Wayland debian 13
Memory: 15.3 GiB
Architecture: x86_64
GPU: Intel(R) UHD Graphics (ICL GT1) || Intel open-source Mesa driver || Mesa 25.0.7-2

[sohang3112]

Thanks @DrBones - setting environment variable + feature flags works to open & run Jupyter Notebook in Ubuntu 26.04 :)
And yeah can't see any option to delete cells in notebook 😞
PS: I'm using the latest stable Zed version (1.7.2) .

[9Skie]

@DrBones dude thanks for the help but the no deletion thing is so dumb what is this bro.

[kishandev2509]

Hello everyone,
I found that Jupyter notebook was not working even when the flags and env variable was set properly.

Zed: v1.7.2+stable.310.aa8ac4b04e261f19c2465f68e9ce2fa9721ae1a2 (Zed) 
OS: Linux Wayland ubuntu 25.10
Memory: 15 GiB
Architecture: x86_64
GPU: Mesa Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600 (HSW GT2) ||  || 4.6 (Core Profile) Mesa 25.2.8-0ubuntu0.25.10.2

This is the version I am using,
Then I tried cli with foreground flag, when I run zed with foreground flag then Jupyter notebook is working else not.

This is the same behaviour for latest preview version on my system
for if the feature_flags are not working alone try:

zed --foreground

Also, if someone a way without this flag, drop it down.
Thanks

[sohang3112]

Are you sure environment variable actually got set? Have you tried launching from terminal like this: LOCAL_NOTEBOOK_DEV=1 zed

Previously when Jupyter Notebook didn't open properly for me, it was because I had put wrong config in .desktop file due to which environment variable wasn't being set. It's working for me now in Ubuntu 26.04

Also, if someone a way without this flag

No, AFAIK both environment variable & feature flag are still required.

[eademir]

I have the same issue. it's a shame that zed doesn't support notebooks.

[mocenigo]

I have the same issue. it's a shame that zed doesn't support notebooks.

Actually it does. It is WIP, but it does.

[daniel-redder]

Has anyone had success executing a .ipynb notebook (not .py REPL) on a remote machine via Zed?

I think the meaning of LOCAL_NOTEBOOK_DEV is execute the notebook on the local machine. I encounter file not found errors when trying to run a notebook as such. I know VScode often solves this by allowing a remote Jupyter server instead of a kernel directly.

For now I made a task to start and port forward a Jupyter server for remotely connected workspaces. However, this means another tab (i.e. a web browser) for running notebooks. This progress towards Jupyter notebook support is very helpful, and I hope it continues to improve.

[sohang3112]

Hi all. In a Jupyter Notebook, I'm unable to select & copy text (in output cell). Does anyone know how to do this?? I frequently need this so I can for example, google some error I got.

[rye0x]

Hi all. I will wait for this feature to be implemented.

[ArneshBanerjee]

Hi, I've been contributing some fixes to the notebook editor recently, including cell deletion, kernel launch handling, and the empty notebook view. One of them is already merged and the others are open.

I'd like to add SVG output rendering next, since matplotlib and some other libraries produce SVG and right now it just shows as an unsupported media type. Is anyone already working on that? And is there anything I should know before starting so I don't duplicate the ongoing work?

Thanks

[pr-maia]

As most, i'm running a TUI with Code and Cursor for interacting with the jupyter notebooks. Cursor became way too cluttered for an IDE and i came across Zed this morning.

Just activated the feature flags and the UI for notebooks works perfectly fine!

[ArneshBanerjee]

I made a jupyter notebook extension but it got closed as the team wanted it to be a feature.
What can I/we do as contributors to help bring this feature faster?

If any member from the core team can let us know what sub parts needs to be worked on then maybe it can be much faster.

Thanks!

[marsjane]

hi @ArneshBanerjee, I am not core team just a user, but I met one issue that bother me most when I use this feature. I am not familiar with rust so if you have time can you help take a look at this: #59001.
Key problem is that I cannot save changes on the remote ipynb files. Easy to reproduce, I am using mac, so run launchctl setenv LOCAL_NOTEBOOK_DEV 1 locally, then open zed-preview(seems only preview can enable this feature now). And remote to a linux server, try edit a ipynb file. Cmd+s, then you should see this error. This issue make it totally unusable..
Much appreciated!

[ArneshBanerjee]

Consider
It
Done

[marsjane]

Wow thanks a lot!!

[grigory-consulting]

Thank you very much, finally I can uninstall VS code!

[ArneshBanerjee]

Yea I saw they have it but it lacks features
That's why I made the plugin in the first place

[rami-shalhoub]

@ArneshBanerjee where can i download the plugin ?

[ArneshBanerjee]

@rami-shalhoub They didn't approve the merge for the extension since they want jupyter as a key feature rather than an extension

[rami-shalhoub]

but there is not a repo?
we can run it as a dev extension

[ArneshBanerjee]

Well since they closed the PR i didn't make it public.

It also has some issues running rn with the latest versions of Zes likely due to some stuff being changed in recent updates so it'll need regular updates and maintenance which isn't possible for me rn.

But I can get a working version on a public repo by the weekend.