Plotly installed on jupyterhub notebook produces console errors when using FigureWidget

Hi,

I’ve been trying to get the new FigureWidget to work in a notebook hosted through a JupyterHub instance. I have the following packages installed:

ipywidgets==7.4.2
notebook==5.7.2
plotly==3.4.2`

The regular plotly offline mode works perfectly, however I need some more interaction with the plot, which is why I would like to use the FigureWidget. When creating a FigureWidget in the notebook, I get the following issues in the console:

As you can see, the jupyterhub creates a user specific environment, maybe the static files aren’t installed properly?

[jonmmease]

Hi @shyam334,

I don’t have any specific ideas of what might be causing this, but here’s what I would try.

1. Rename (or remove if you don’t care about anything in it) /usr/local/etc/jupyter/nbconfig/notebook.json so that jupyter doesn’t find any extensions outside of your conda environment.
2. Uninstall, reinstall, and reenable the ipywidgets and plotlywidget extensions

$ jupyter nbextension uninstall --py --sys-prefix widgetsnbextension
$ jupyter nbextension uninstall --py --sys-prefix plotlywidget
$ jupyter nbextension install --py --sys-prefix widgetsnbextension
$ jupyter nbextension install --py --sys-prefix plotlywidget
$ jupyter nbextension enable --py --sys-prefix widgetsnbextension
$ jupyter nbextension enable --py --sys-prefix plotlywidget

1. Try again 🙂

[misolietavec]

I have exactly the same versions of ipywidgets, notebook, plotly and got the same error messages 😃 ipywidgets alone work OK. After removing user configuration file (~/.jupyter/nbconfig/notebook.json) FigureWidget works (the nbextensions are specified in system-wide file /usr/local/etc/jupyter/nbconfig/notebook.json). I have packages installed by pip, not conda. This behaviour I tested with local jupyter notebook command and also with remote jupyterhub instance. Do not know, why this “works for me”, but maybe this can help developers in tracking problems.