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Problem Formulation: Can you serve a dash app within a Jupyter notebook rather than in a browser?
Answer: Yes!
Plotly created two Github projects that enable the serving of dash apps in a Jupyter notebook.
- The older
jupyterlab-dash
project is not actively maintained according to its creators from Plotly. You should use have a look at their replacement project: - The newer
jupyter-dash
project provides you powerful interactive dash functionality within many different types of notebooks such as Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab, Visual Studio Code, and even PyCharm Notebooks.

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