Hidden pages & Thebe Release

Week of Aug 1, 2022

Hidden Pages

Publishing Curvenote sites became even easier last week when we launched our new publish button in the Curvenote editor. Now we’ve added the ability to hide articles and notebooks within your project so that you can control which of these appear as pages on your published site. This allows you to keep drafts or working material within a project, without it being published to your website.

Editing block settings to hide a document when publishing to a website.

Figure 1:Editing block settings to hide a document when publishing to a website.

The hide option is located in the Article Settings dialog, and hidden articles in a project are identified with a visibility icon, as shown below.

Hidden notebooks in a project!

Figure 2:Hidden notebooks in a project!

Merged Repos together! 👩🔬

We have consolidated many of our open source repositories to simplify the experience for development and make our GitHub footprint a little bit more sensible!

This has simplified the install and build experience, and will lead to speeding up things for end users as well!

This did mean touching a lot of code to make everything work again!

Figure 3:This did mean touching a lot of code to make everything work again!

Thebe Release Candidate

This week we published thebe v0.9.0-rc.0 as part of our ongoing work on the executable books codebase. While thebe-core is essentially a headless connector library for Jupyter that allows any Javascript app to connect to and compute on sessions on a Jupyter server (we talked about this in Themes & Interactive Computing a few weeks ago), thebe providing that connectivity while also converting code snippets on a page into Codemirror cells for editing and execution.

We refactored thebe-core out of thebe to provide Jupyter connectivity in different application contexts, and now we’ve reintegrated that into thebe upgrading the latter to typescript in the process, as well as introducing a bunch of improvements including better messaging and JuptyerLite support.

Check in on the status of the release candidate to integrate thebe-core.