Add support for ipywidgets 8

[DonJayamanne]

Packages such as tqdm will not work with the latest version of IPyWidgets 8

• Explore supporting IPyWidgets 8

Work around - Please install ipywidgets==7.7.2

[JP-Ellis]

Is this a difficult issue to resolve? Do we know what causes the widgets to not display at all?

[DonJayamanne]

know what causes the widgets to not display at all?

we need to update the npm packages used and tweak a few places accordingly

[JP-Ellis]

Is there a temporary workaround which might allow this to work while a permanent fix is being worked on?

[DonJayamanne]

temporary workaround which might

unfortunately no. you can use the older version. i don't think 8 had been released yet.

[JP-Ellis]

All good! While version 8 is not yet marked as stable, it has been available on pypi as a pre-release since February 2020, and the first beta (?) appeared in November 2021. There's a few things I'm looking forward to use once it works well within VS Code 😄

[JP-Ellis]

Just as a friendly FYI: The first release candidate for 8.0.0 was released on 12 March.

[DonJayamanne]

@JP-Ellis please test the latest pre-release version of the extension, it should work as long as you are not using any of the latest IPyWidget 8.0 widgets/features. I.e. older widgets like slider/textboxes, etc and othe 3rd party widgets will now work when installing ipywidgets 8.0.

[JP-Ellis]

Unfortunately it didn't seem to work for me. I tested the HTML and Dropdown widgets from ipywidgets v8.0.0rc0 and against v2022.4.1000912146 of the extension and nothing showed up. Let me know if there's anything specific you would like me to try or output you wish to see.

[DonJayamanne]

Will test, I tried this with the 8b1, not the rc version.
Confirmed, it widgets still do not render in IPYWidgets 8 (there must have been some protocol change in the RC version)

[DonJayamanne]

@JP-Ellis
I've just tried this again against the latest pre-release and the v8.0.0rc0 and it seems to work for me
Here's the version of Jupyter extension installed v2022.4.1000971004, please could you let me know if this works?

[alex180500]

any update on this?

[basnijholt]

For the folks asking for updates, @kieferrm posted that "Support ipywidget 8 #8552 @DonJayamanne" is on the planning for February 🎉

This is great! I keep getting questions from colleagues about why their widgets aren't working in VS Code 😄

[matifali]

Nice, so that it will work out of the box now? or we need to install update something?

[DonJayamanne]

Please wait till early next week and it will work in a prerelease version

[DonJayamanne]

@matifali you should be able to test this within an hour
Please install the pre-release version of the Jupyter extension and the latest version of the notebook renderer application in vscode insiders

[pcmoritz]

@DonJayamanne Do you know when we can expect the fix to this being available in a released version of this extension? That would be very much appreciated! Thanks for fixing this :)

[DonJayamanne]

We generally close issues when it’s been resolved
If not resolved and cleared then we add comments to that effect
The support for ipywidgets 8 was added a few releases ago

[pcmoritz]

Got it, thanks a lot! I think I got confused with the old version that was released on https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-jupyter/releases/tag/2022.09.120 -- it seems on the marketplace a newer version is available. Thanks for your help and sorry for the confusion :)

[pcmoritz]

It looks like this issue was tricky to fix, kudos for getting it solved!