Creating a new theme in JupyterLab to use in Kubernetes/Binderhub

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Hello,

I am tying to create a new theme for JupyterLab to use with Binderhub. I was wondering if anybody has taken such steps and what is the procedure in doing so.

Any advice would be appreciated.

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You can take a look at the built in theme extensions and go from there: https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab/tree/master/packages/theme-light-extension

To create a theme you have to create a npm package that declares itself as a npm extension and specifies the theme path:

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@andreyodum this might be it https://github.com/ian-r-rose/binder-workspace-demo

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@arnim That link was great/really useful!

The binder image seems to be following the information here: https://jupyterlab.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user/extensions.html#jupyterlab-user-settings-directory

That documentation also says that it is possible to manually set a JUPYTERLAB_SETTINGS_DIR environment variable to control where the settings directory is located.

I wonder if there is a smart way to use that fact with a start script to set these themes in the container’s easily (for repo2docker at least I mean: https://repo2docker.readthedocs.io/en/latest/config_files.html#start-run-code-before-the-user-sessions-starts ).