jupytext and jupyter lite ? about jupytext

[parmentelat]

Hey @mwouts - hope you're doing fine

well, as far as skills I am unfortunately not the right person either :)

I was just raising this because I thought I might not be the only jupytext addict to start playing with jupyterlite, given that it is becoming a more and more viable and appealing option...

[mwouts]

Hi @parmentelat , thanks for opening this thread. I see are at least two difficulties for providing the current Jupytext in Jupyter Lite
a) The context manager for Jupyter Lite seems to be very different from the Jupyter Lab one (e.g. it's coded in Javascript, while Jupytext's contents manager is written in Python)
b) I don't know how to distribute a Python package for pyodide. I tried

import pyodide_js
await pyodide_js.loadPackage('jupytext')

but it failed with the following error: JsException: Error: No known package with name 'jupytext'

Possibly it would make sense to code another converter from scratch in TypeScript, but I am afraid I don't have the skills nor the time to do so. @jtpio do you have any thoughts on the subject?