Deactivate JupyterLab frontend in a JupyterHub setup?

#1

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…

#2

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
#3

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

#4

Or use /tree as the default URL?

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#5

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'