Extending the Notebook

Certain subsystems of the notebook server are designed to be extended or overridden by users. These documents explain these systems, and show how to override the notebook’s defaults with your own custom behavior.

• Contents API
  • Data Model
  • Writing a Custom ContentsManager
  • Customizing Checkpoints
  • Testing
• File save hooks
  • Examples
• Custom request handlers
  • Writing a notebook server extension
  • Registering custom handlers
• Custom front-end extensions
  • The structure of a front-end extension
  • Modifying key bindings
  • Defining and registering your own actions
  • Installing and enabling extensions
  • Kernel Specific extensions
• Customize keymaps
• Custom bundler extensions
  • Declaring bundler metadata
  • Writing the bundle function
  • Enabling/disabling bundler extensions
  • Example: IPython Notebook bundle (.zip)
  • Bundler invocation details