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Help developers of custom widgets with backwards compatibility and upgrading

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I have a custom ipywidget which I’d like to update to work with the latest ipywidgets 7.0, but it’s not clear to me what the implications would be for continuing to use the latest version of my widget in older Jupyter installations. Is that never going to work? Will it just work? Are there specific things I can do that will keep it working, and could you give some hints in the release notes or elsewhere for custom widget developers? Maybe it’s a lot to ask but it’d be helpful! 😄

The specific question I’m thinking of is the move from jupyter-js-widgets to @jupyter-widgets/base. If I update this, do I need to have a compatibility table like this for my widget?

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Created 6 years ago
Comments:10 (7 by maintainers)

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pbugnioncommented, Aug 3, 2017

I’m happy to try and write a migration guide for custom widget developers. I need to migrate jupyter-gmaps anyway.

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pbugnioncommented, Aug 6, 2017

I’ve opened PR #1594 for a migration guide.

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