IPython Notebook development

Development dependencies

Developers of the IPython Notebook will need to install the following tools:

• fabric
• node.js
• less (npm install -g less)
• bower (npm install -g bower)

Components

We are moving to a model where our JavaScript dependencies are managed using
bower. These packages are installed in static/components
and commited into our git repo. Our dependencies are described in the file
static/bower.json. To update our bower packages, run fab components in this
directory.

Because CodeMirror does not use proper semantic versioning for its GitHub tags,
we maintain our own fork of CodeMirror that is used with bower. This fork should
track the upstream CodeMirror exactly; the only difference is that we are adding
semantic versioned tags to our repo.

less

If you edit our .less files you will need to run the less compiler to build
our minified css files. This can be done by running fab css from this directory.