Setting up JupyterLab environment in Gradient
Earlier in this chapter, we went through the steps to set up Gradient as an environment to explore fastai. With this set up, you get the standard Jupyter notebook environment that features a filesystem view and the ability to update notebooks, launch terminal windows, and perform basic operations such as uploading and downloading files from your local system. If you want a richer development environment, you can set up Gradient to use JupyterLab.
In addition to allowing you to maintain multiple views (for example, a terminal view along with several notebooks) within the same browser tab, JupyterLab also lets you take advantage of visual debuggers in the context of a notebook. In this section, we will go through the steps to set up Gradient so that you can use JupyterLab. Note that this recipe is optional—any example in this book that you can run in Gradient with JupyterLab will also work in vanilla Jupyter.
