Binder – Turn a Git repo into a collection of interactive notebooks

Binder is really amazing for Python/data science tutorial authors: I have a pandas tutorial on github, and instead of requiring everyone to install a bunch of Python libraries / set up a Docker container, now I can just link to

https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/jvns/pandas-cookbook/master

and people can try out the tutorial right away! Before Binder, running workshops always involved a TON of installation problems and it was a huge amount of work in advance to figure out how people on windows / mac / linux could all get the tools installed.

1) There's Binder, which is the infrastructure for building computational environments around repos, and BinderHub, which hosts the executable code online. Binder's model, as I understand it, is to develop the infrastructure and then have universities/institutions/whatever host BinderHub: https://binderhub.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

2) One of my favorite contributions from the team is repo2docker, which turns requirements.txt or equivalent into Dockerfiles: https://repo2docker.readthedocs.io/en/latest/, integration into binder described here https://blog.jupyter.org/binder-2-0-a-tech-guide-2017-fd4051...

3) Not just Jupyter notebooks, also R/Rstudio/Rshiny: https://github.com/binder-examples/r

Some demos and examples:

https://jupyter.org/try all the repos linked from there are backed by mybinder.org (The interpreted C++ one blows my mind)

Some examples if you want to know how to configure things: * Install Python dependencies via requirements.txt https://github.com/binder-examples/requirements

* Jupyter with R and RStudio: https://github.com/binder-examples/r

* Julia support: https://github.com/binder-examples/demo-julia

* Installing additional APT packages: https://github.com/binder-examples/apt_install

(I work on Binder)

Should point out I actually found it via this doc URL where the runs are actually embedded within the template which I found pretty interesting, turns out to be part of Sphinx generation ...

https://rasa.com/docs/nlu/quickstart/

https://sphinx-gallery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/gen_modules/...

Does anyone know where Binder gets its funding from? Or how much it costs to run an operation like this?

I’m wondering if it’s economically feasible to make online textbooks and references interact-able through a Jupyter backend. I know it’s already technically possible via nb-interact, but I haven’t seen it used besides a classroom size.

I tried it with my notebook repo at https://github.com/azer/notebook , the result wasn't impressive; https://hub.mybinder.org/user/azer-notebook-rgdv97ik/edit/bo...

Original Github view looks more clean: https://github.com/azer/notebook/blob/master/books/zero-to-o...

there should be a link to a demo already, instead of asking me for a github url

Getting a few security errors at the moment. [1]

> Blocked by Content Security Policy

> An error occurred during a connection to github.com.

> Firefox prevented this page from loading in this way because the page has a content security policy that disallows it.

[1] https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/torvalds/linux/master

Example [1] using GitHub’s mirror of the Linux kernel [2].

[1] https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/torvalds/linux/master

[2] https://github.com/torvalds/linux

I have created a side project similar to this, at the moment It is pre alpha with limited resources. https://notebooks.newrails.tech/

So, did this site get slashdotted? Getting connection refused errors.

Any examples?