Week 15 Frontend Progress

Frontend

• Display error message notifications
• Show the collaborator's name on their cursor when they are typing
• Auto render markdown on unlock
• Move code execution queue to the ReduxKernel middleware instead of the useKernel hook
• Deterministically choose a color for each user for their cursor, cell borders, and avatar borders
• Use the jupyter notebook server instead of jupyter kernelgateway in the desktop-launcher
• Use the @jupyterlab/services package instead of the deprecated jupyter-js-services package

• Released v0.2.0 of @actually-colab/desktop-launcher with automatic cryptographically secure random tokens and the jupyter notebook server under the hood

Organizational

• Got accepted to ACM and our funding request was approved to provide access to the platform until December 2021