`standalone-datacatalog` doesn't have Kedro metadata about kedro-starters

[astrojuanlu]

Thanks @noklam for the extra context (well, and also for pasting the README I should have, errr, read).

Maybe we can work on this from a different angle. Given that the kedro.ipython extension purpose is to give easy access to catalog, context, pipelines and session, would it be possible for it to work without metadata? I guess the only missing bit would be the Kedro session.

Otherwise, let's just turn this issue into a docs issue so that we can adapt this sentence or add a warning around it:

https://github.com/kedro-org/kedro/blob/393d9d202f97bf07c8b1fc9cba6493979d6e958c/docs/source/notebooks_and_ipython/kedro_and_notebooks.md?plain=1#L9

[noklam]

@astrojuanlu

I think the kedro.ipython also need a full Kedro project to work with, but maybe there is something we can work around.

I am going to give this a closer look while I work on the kedro jupyter-init command.

[noklam]

@astrojuanlu Thanks for picking this up.

This is extracted from the README

Limitation
... If you stick with this project structure without transitioning to a full project, you will only be able to use Kedro’s library components such as the DataCatalog, Node and Pipeline manually. You won’t be able to use features available in a full Kedro project, including project-based CLI commands such as kedro run.

This included kedro jupyter, as we also suggest the users launch the notebook with jupyter notebook instead of the kedro command.

I do realize this is a bit awkward, but I don't think adding the pyproject.toml to make it a full project is the correct approach since we want to make it standalone instead of a full Python package.

[merelcht]

Needs to be taken into account for the user journey where users incrementally onboard to Kedro.

[noklam]

Answering the question earlier:

• Since the current starter is designed to used Kedro as a library - not a project. It doesn't have any pyproject.toml, in fact none of the "Kedro Project commands" is available.
• %reload_kedro also won't work because pyproject.toml is needed

[noklam]

We removed this starter right?

[astrojuanlu]

It got archived in #184 indeed