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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Watson Studio
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 19, 2017

Add Nodejs to DSX Notebooks

Node, Cloudant and Compose users are likely to be interested in DSX and Notebooks, but may not know what they need to know (Spark, Python, R, etc) to give it a try. Node together with PixieDust make for a very welcoming getting started experience for those users of the platform. (Important to note that Node is among the most popular runtimes on Bluemix, and Cloudant among the most popular services.)

We've already made this work on Jupyter. From our Github repo:

The pixiedust_node Python module has access to Pixiedust's display API to render charts and maps. When pixiedust_node is imported into a notebook, a Node.js sub-process is setup and the notebook is configured so that cells beginning with '%%node' may contain JavaScript code: that code is piped to the Node.js sub-process automatically. The output of the Node.js process is parsed by pixiedust_node to handle the use of functions display/print/store/html/image. The pixiedust_node module also allows npm installs to be initiated from within the notebook. This achieved with further npm sub-processes whose output appears in the notebook.

More here: https://github.com/ibm-watson-data-lab/pixiedust_node