Deactivate JupyterLab frontend in a JupyterHub setup?

Aitkain · September 26, 2019, 1:30pm

How to deactivate JupyterLab (JL) in a JupyterHub setup?
Sorry JL folks; this is probably against the trend, but we currently want Notebook and only Notebook frontend for some use cases.
I wonder if just disabling JL serverextension in singleuser image would work, with minimum side effects…

manics · September 26, 2019, 2:29pm

Are you using one of the docker-stack images? https://github.com/jupyter/docker-stacks/blob/1386e20468332f32a028c6224bbd8439eb406ee4/base-notebook/Dockerfile#L107

Could you uninstall jupyterlab?

conda uninstall jupyterlab

Aitkain · September 26, 2019, 2:41pm

Thanks; uninstalling JL is indeed an(other?) option, as it was installed in the singleuser image. Trying to figure out the easiest option…

jtp · September 26, 2019, 7:02pm

Or use /tree as the default URL?

00Kai0 · September 30, 2019, 4:49am

I think it is right to set ‘/tree’ as default URL.
You can set this code in jupyterhub_config.py

c.Spawner.default_url = '/tree'