manim-widget 0.2.0rc1

Manim Widget: manim, truly interactive, without the hassle

Manim Widget

Interactive Manim for Jupyter/marimo notebooks. The power of Manim, without the hassle.

Installation

# in your project
uv add manim-widget

And you're good to go ! You do not even need to install LaTeX.

If you get errors during installation, go read the manim install guide

Want to try it online ?

Thank's to marimo, that's a no brainer:

How it works

Manim widget uses the amazing Manim Web project to render your scenes.

Code in this repository mainly does the serialization form python to js, using a precise json specification. And it turns out it's harder than one could think !

If you want to dig deeper, I strongly recommend to use the deepwiki documentation here

Headless testing

tests/js_runner.py lets you validate a scene through the JS renderer without a browser — useful for quick sanity-checks and CI.

# run a scene class from an example file
uv run python tests/js_runner.py examples/arrow.py ArrowDance

# pipe in pre-serialized JSON
uv run python -c "from mymodule import MyScene; import json; print(json.dumps(MyScene().scene_data))" \
  | uv run python tests/js_runner.py --json

Exit code is 0 on success, 1 on any JS playback error. Errors and warnings are printed to stdout.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md

AI

This project used AI extensively. I still spent hours on papers for the design decisions, and reviewed most of the architecture, contracts and tests (except for JS 😬)