We are going to introduce a simplified workflow for publishing Jupyter notebooks on a website generated with Hugo. The python package nb2hugo will be used to convert the notebooks to markdown pages. The process will be fully automated thanks to Netlify. Once everything configured, you will just have to push your Jupyter notebooks to a Git repository to get them published on your website.

Jupyter Lab is only at version 0.32 at the time of writing, but it is already very promising. It is like a small IDE running in your web browser. It allows to conveniently edit and run files on a remote server. We tested Jupyter Lab on a connection with high latency (>300ms) and using the text editor, notebooks or the file manager was easy and reactive. Only the terminal was suffering from some lag, but at a level that was still bearable. We are going to see now how to remotely connect to a server running Jupyter Lab.

Update (2019-04): a simplified workflow for easily publishing notebooks is now described in the post Blogging with Jupyter notebooks and Hugo. It is based on nb2hugo, a tool to convert Jupyter notebooks into markdown pages with front matter. Jupyter Notebook is a great way to create a single document that contains code that can be executed, formatted text to provide detailed explanations, as well as figures. It is even possible to easily include mathematical expressions that will be beautifully rendered. Hugo is a simple yet very powerful static site generator. Being able to write an article entirely in Jupyter Notebook and directly convert it to Hugo content would be perfect, but how could we proceed?