Replacing /notebooks/ with /restified/ doesn't work in binder

[kafonek]

Look into figuring out how to best use server extensions in binder. Possibly some inspiration at Voila's server extension (<base_url>/voila/render/<path>) from https://github.com/QuantStack/voila/blob/master/voila/server_extension.py ?

[pplonski]

Hey Matt!

You named 3 types of Notebook usages:

1. Scratchpad
2. Workflow documentation
3. Dashboard/REST

I think it is healthy to distinguish the last into 2 separate usages as they differ. So you will have:

1. Scratchpad
2. Workflow doc
3. Dashboard / App (with scheduling and periodic tasks)
4. REST
5. And I would add "Package" where the user develops the python package (to avoid importing a notebook in a notebook). The last option will be in the spirit of Test-Driven-Development with a horizontally split screen with 2 notebooks (cell lists), one notebook for writing the code and one for writing the tests.

I've started to work on such a solution repo, HN. I have Dashboard-mode Proof-of-Concept ready. I think all types of notebook usage can be implemented in my solution. For REST-mode I'm planning to:

• expose notebook as user-defined api endpoint,
• on REST request, the full notebook is executed in the queue, job id is returned as the response
• use long polling for checking the job status and fetch the result
  What do you think about this approach?