archive.auto doesn't work with JupyterLab

It seems that hv.archive.auto() doesn’t work with JupyterLab because it doesn’t allow Javascript execution:

    >>> hv.archive.auto()
    
    Javascript Error: IPython is not defined
    Automatic capture is now enabled. [2019-03-21 11:03:54]
    ...
    >>> hv.archive.export()
    
    Export name: '2019_03_21-11_03_54'
    Directory    '<snip>'

    If no output appears, please check holoviews.archive.last_export_status()
    Javascript Error: IPython is not defined
    
    >>> hv.archive.last_export_status()
    
    Status of the last call to holoviews.archive.export is unknown.
    (Re-execute this method once kernel status is idle.)

Is there a way to work around this limitation for JupyterLab notebooks?

[gioarma]

@jbednar Yes, for a person like me who deals with writing reports and academic papers this functionality would be a game changer. I understand you have a lot of stuff to maintain and it’s not easy, but I hope you will be able to do it because this is key for making reproducible science easy.

[jlstevens]

Thinking about this more, it is likely that the only part that is tricky in jupyterlab is grabbing the notebook JSON state - not the export of the images etc. As a result, I can probably issue a warning when things fail which means it can work properly in classic notebook and it can mostly work in Jupyterlab.