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Voila

1Converts 2Jupyter 3notebooks 4into 5standalone 6apps

the six Ws · specification

W1 Who

Data scientists who want to publish a Jupyter notebook as a polished app without exposing the code.

W2 What

Voila is an open source Jupyter subproject that renders a live notebook as a standalone web dashboard, hiding code cells and executing widgets interactively.

W3 Where

Self-hosted as a Jupyter server extension, or deployed via Docker, Binder, or any WSGI-compatible host.

W4 When

Used when the fastest path from an existing analysis notebook to a shareable interactive app is needed.

W5 Why

It requires no rewrite of existing notebook code, just adding ipywidgets for interactivity.

W6 With

Built on Jupyter Server, nbconvert, and ipywidgets for interactive components.

W7 Watch

Open source, BSD 3 Clause licensed, self-hosted, part of the official Jupyter project with close to 6000 GitHub stars.

jupyternotebooksdashboardpythonjupyter-widgets

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