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Welcome to the JupyterLab documentation site. JupyterLab is a highly extensible, feature-rich notebook authoring application and editing environment, and is a part of Project Jupyter, a large umbrella project centered around the goal of providing tools (and standards) for interactive computing with computational notebooks.
A computational notebook is a shareable document that combines computer code, plain language descriptions, data, rich visualizations like 3D models, charts, graphs and figures, and interactive controls. A notebook, along with an editor like JupyterLab, provides a fast interactive environment for prototyping and explaining code, exploring and visualizing data, and sharing ideas with others.
JupyterLab is a sibling to other notebook authoring applications under the Project Jupyter umbrella, like Jupyter Notebook and Jupyter Desktop. JupyterLab offers a more advanced, feature rich, customizable experience compared to Jupyter Notebook.
Try JupyterLab on Binder. JupyterLab follows the Jupyter Community Guides.
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See the sections below (and the top-level links above) for more information about using, extending, and contributing to JupyterLab.
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getting_started/overview
user/index
extension/extension_dev
developer/contributing
API Reference <developer/api>