fern-labextension 0.0.9

Fern Jupyter lab Extension

Fern

Fabolous Extension for Reproductible jupter lab Notebooks

Fern is a plugin for the Jupyter Lab Notebook designed to help you track and document your workflow in conjunction with amie.ai.

To see a quick demo of it in action checkout the gif below:

Installation

Fern is available on pypi and can be installed with pip. Once this is done the Jupyter extension must be installed and enabled:

pip install fern_labextension
jupyter labextension install @disraptoer/fern

Usage

To activate Fern, add the following lines to the top of your notebook

%matplotlib inline #optional, for figure capture
%load_ext fern.fern
%track on "your amie API key"

If you want to turn the tracker off at any time just run

%track off

To start tracking agin rerun

%track on "your amie API key" 

FAQ

Q: How does it work?

We determine the inputs and outputs for each cell by building an AST of your code. Each new cell execution creates a new leaf which is attached in the tree where the most recent change in the new leaf's inputs occured as an output to a prior cell.