Hey there, We are extensively extending JupyterHub’s functionality by developing custom hub-managed services . Since the JupyterHub’s REST API is properly documented , we are not missing any features or functionality. It is also great that JupyterHub services can rely on already implemented authenti…

There’s a good explanation here JupyterHub Extension Mechanism opened 03:23PM - 12 Apr 21 UTC (UTC) [image] costrouc enhancement …

Also worth mentioning that if you don’t want to use the REST API directly there are libraries that wrap it, e.g. [image] Open sourcing new python client SDKs for jupyterhub and jupyter server JupyterHub We’ve been using the notebook and jupyterhub API with our…

Thanks for the reply and the linked resources! [image] manics: To maintain this separation of internal details vs the published API in another extension framework means duplicating the REST API, which adds to the maintenance overhead. Indeed, I didn’t consider the impact of a whole new inter…

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Also worth mentioning that if you don’t want to use the REST API directly there are libraries that wrap it, e.g.

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