Comprehensive install script

As I’m experiencing troubles setting up the right dev environment on WSL, I thought it useful to solve it in an issue here. I’m on WSL x64 (Ubuntu 16.04) using Miniconda3.

I went through the jupyterlab contributing guide and the instructions on this repo and did the following in a folder /mnt/d/jlab/:

conda create -n monaco
source activate monaco
conda install -c conda-forge nodejs notebook nb_conda_kernels
git clone https://github.com/<your-github-username>/jupyterlab.git
cd jupyterlab
pip install -e .
jlpm install
jlpm run build  # Build the dev mode assets (optional)
jlpm run build:core  # Build the core mode assets (optional)
jupyter lab build  # Build the app dir assets (optional)
cd ..
git clone https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab-monaco.git
cd jupyterlab-monaco
yarn install
yarn run build
jupyter labextension link .

That final command sometimes ends up in an infinite loop, supplying dev mode argument helps it to pass. I tried experimenting with rebuilding after I made the changes in that config.json you mentioned somewhere, but I can’t get it to work.

I can start JupyterLab with the default command, but the text editor is still codemirror.

Would you mind helping out with a comprehensive bash file that should work in principle? Did I forget anything or got something wrong?

I guess it’s just “first-timer” issues.

[TiemenSch]

You should get a Monaco editor when you open a non-notebook file. At least the first time you open it it should work. The current implementation is a very blunt one. You can recognize it by the minimap on the right hand side.

Any luck?

[jasongrout]

(In fact, if you’re just using the extension instead of developing it, you could do jupyter labextension install . instead of linking it)