feat(widgets): serve widget library files from Jupyter Server

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Summary

Jupyter Server now serves widget library files (JavaScript, CSS and JSON) installed in the project's environment at GET /deepnote/widget-assets/<kind>/<path>. The outputs host fetches them with the project's Jupyter token, so widgets from Bokeh, ipympl, Panel and other JupyterLab extensions can load their JavaScript from the machine instead of a public CDN.

What's inside

• deepnote_core/widget_assets.py, a Jupyter Server extension with three kinds:
  • labextensions/<module>/<file>: a file in an installed JupyterLab extension, with @scope/name for scoped ones. It's looked up in Jupyter's data paths, then in sys.base_prefix/share/jupyter/labextensions, and the first folder with the extension's package.json wins, as in JupyterLab.
  • bokeh/<file>: bokeh's server/static/js folder.
  • panel/<file>: panel's dist folder.
• Safety:
  • Every path segment must match [A-Za-z0-9_@-][A-Za-z0-9_.@-]*, the same rule as the webapp.
  • The file must stay inside its folder after following symlinks.
  • Only .js, .css and .json files are served.
  • bokeh and panel are found with importlib.util.find_spec and never imported.
• Auth is jupyter_server's own token check. A missing or wrong token gets 403 (not a redirect), and anything not found gets 404.
• jupyter_server_config.py enables deepnote_core.widget_assets.

Testing

• tests/unit/test_widget_assets.py has 38 tests: file lookup, path validation, symlinks, packages that fail when imported, the route with token auth, and the config entry. They need the server extra, so CI runs them in the Python 3.12 job.
• Ran a local Jupyter Server with the repo's config, and it loaded the extension:
  • No token or a wrong token: 403.
  • Authorization: Bearer <token>: 200 with the right content type.
  • ../, %2e%2e, an unknown kind or an uninstalled extension: 404.
  • A 2.2 MB file was served in about 4 ms.
• Importing the extension adds about 8.6 MB to Jupyter Server's memory, because it loads deepnote_core's config.

To check on the review app

From a project terminal, after pip install ipympl anywidget jupyter_bokeh panel, curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $JUPYTER_TOKEN" localhost:8888/deepnote/widget-assets/... should return 200 for each library's files, also on conda and custom images.

Part of SAL-198

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added support for serving widget assets from installed JupyterLab extensions, Bokeh, and Panel, allowing compatible widgets to load their JavaScript, CSS, and JSON resources.
  • Asset requests require a valid Jupyter token. Supported files are served with the appropriate content type; invalid, unsupported, or unavailable assets return a not-found response.

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📝 Walkthrough

The change adds a Jupyter Server extension that finds JupyterLab, Bokeh, and Panel assets and serves supported JavaScript, CSS, and JSON files through an authenticated route. The lookup validates paths and confines resolved files to their asset roots. The server configuration enables the extension. Unit tests cover lookup, HTTP responses, and configuration.

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Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant WidgetAssetHandler
  participant find_widget_asset
  participant Filesystem
  Client->>WidgetAssetHandler: Request asset with Jupyter token
  WidgetAssetHandler->>find_widget_asset: Look up asset by kind and path
  find_widget_asset->>Filesystem: Resolve and validate asset file
  Filesystem-->>WidgetAssetHandler: Return file or no match
  WidgetAssetHandler-->>Client: Return file response or 404

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The extension serves widget assets through the authenticated Jupyter route. No concrete merge-blocking issue is established, so the change is ready for normal merge checks.

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- Around line 78-79: Update asset discovery in widget_assets.py so find_spec
resolves Bokeh and Panel from the kernel-visible package set rather than
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