JupyterLab 4.0: a development environment for education and research

Recently I've been trying to use JupyterLab, and I've been finding the extensibility incredibly annoying to work with.

In Jupyter notebooks, it's easy to output some HTML and Javascript, making it very easy to make interactive graphics. JupyterLab has locked everything down, meaning it really wants you to write an installable python package, which means now I need to make a full python distributed pip package just to draw a clickable grid.

Even worse, as discussed here, they keep breaking the API every release.

After trying Jupyter Lab for a while, I'm going to stick with Jupyter notebooks, which is the format best supported anyway (for example, in vscode).