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by thomasfedb 2846 days ago
This is really cool stuff. Editing notebooks in the browser is pretty good, but it can't (yet) match the experience of a well configured (and extended) text editor.
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I've been using vscode with the jupyter extension (https://github.com/DonJayamanne/vscodeJupyter) and it's exactly what you describe, experience of a good text editor and the visual notebook workflow.
While working on udacity classes, I found vscode python jupyter plugin very helpful. Having a nice editor makes you so much more productive.

I wrote a little python pip module to help me convert between .ipynb and .py.

https://github.com/nojvek/vscode-ipynb-py-converter

Made a world of difference.

Neat, I'll give that a shot. Does it handle all kernels?
It doesn't appear to. Helpfully, Hydrogen [0] for Atom was designed to be entirely language agnostic.

[0]: https://github.com/nteract/hydrogen