Jupyter Lab – launches but don't see any tabs (look/feel is 100% different than seen in youtube videos)

Question:

I have jupyter notebook version 4.2 on my MacOS (10.9.5)

I launch via jupyter lab at the MacOS terminal and it automatically opens a browser at the following link: http://localhost:8888/lab

At this point I see the Welcome to the JupyterLab Alpha preview screen but nothing more. No tabs etc. Please see the image I have included.

I am using Chromium (Version 43.0.2357.130 (64-bit)
). When I try to open in Safari browser absolutely nothing loads. Its a blank browser session.

What I see in the browser doesn’t look like anything that I have seen in all of the JupyterLab videos on youtube (PyData 2016 DC for example).

Clearly there is something wrong with the rendering.

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UPDATE:

Output in the console:

WebSocket connection to 'ws://localhost:8888/terminals/websocket/1' failed: WebSocket is closed before the connection is established.
http://localhost:8888/api/contents/untitled.txt?1485120059877 Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)
http://localhost:8888/api/contents/DeleteMe.ipynb?1485120060078 Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)

Output in the MacOS terminal:

[I 16:20:58.569 LabApp] JupyterLab alpha preview extension loaded from /Users/user1/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/jupyterlab
[I 16:20:58.570 LabApp] Serving notebooks from local directory: /Users/user1
[I 16:20:58.570 LabApp] 0 active kernels 
[I 16:20:58.570 LabApp] The Jupyter Notebook is running at: http://localhost:8888/
[I 16:20:58.570 LabApp] Use Control-C to stop this server and shut down all kernels (twice to skip confirmation).
[W 16:20:59.883 LabApp] No such file or directory: untitled.txt
[W 16:20:59.884 LabApp] 404 GET /api/contents/untitled.txt?1485120059877 (::1) 3.88ms referer=http://localhost:8888/lab
[I 16:20:59.893 LabApp] New terminal with specified name: 1
[W 16:21:00.095 LabApp] No such file or directory: DeleteMe.ipynb
[W 16:21:00.098 LabApp] 404 GET /api/contents/DeleteMe.ipynb?1485120060078 (::1) 5.14ms referer=http://localhost:8888/lab
[W 16:22:35.969 LabApp] 404 GET /lab/xterm.js.map (::1) 64.85ms referer=None
[W 16:25:30.075 LabApp] No such file or directory: untitled.txt
[W 16:25:30.076 LabApp] 404 GET /api/contents/untitled.txt?1485120330069 (::1) 1.74ms referer=http://localhost:8888/lab
[W 16:25:30.101 LabApp] 404 GET /lab/xterm.js.map (::1) 3.18ms referer=None
[W 16:25:30.296 LabApp] No such file or directory: DeleteMe.ipynb
[W 16:25:30.297 LabApp] 404 GET /api/contents/DeleteMe.ipynb?1485120330283 (::1) 1.73ms referer=http://localhost:8888/lab

Output of browser console:

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UPDATE:

Here is a specific video of Jupyter Labs I watched:

JupyterLab: Building Blocks…

What I see is very different than what is shown in the video. There are many other videos on youtube.

UPDATE #2:

I followed Feynman27’s instructions here however I get the same result. See screen shot. I see where it says, Click on the Launcher tab for the initial JupyterLab screen, however I can’t find where that is.

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UPDATE #3:

I updated my browser to Chromium Version 56.0.2924.87 (64-bit).

Now all works fine. I see the tabs.

Asked By: codingknob

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Answers:

The Problem is You are not using any Notebook to open any notebook.
Type the following:

ipython notebook xyz.py
or
jupyter notebook xyz.py

Now you will be able to see the Notebook.

You can also browse in the left Screen to the directory where you have a Python script and then open that by clicking on the *.py file from that file explorer.

Answered By: gather bar

I updated my browser to Chromium Version 56.0.2924.87 (64-bit). The prior version was Version 43.0.2357.130 (64-bit).

On the new version of Chromium, the Jupyter Lab works as expected.

I wanted to answer this question so any other users who experience something similar have a document resource to find a solution.

Answered By: codingknob

Just pressing Ctrl+Shift+Enter can toggle showing the tabs on/off. Often one tends to press by mistake and see it disappear

Answered By: Vijay Jayaraman

I could not find an answer to this issue on Windows when searching Stackoverflow/Google/Bing, and this thread was quite prominent hence my Windows-specific answer here.

CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER did not work for me. On windows 10 with Jupyter 4.4.0, Jupyter Lab 0.35.4, the tabs in Jupyter Lab can be made visible/hidden by clicking CTRL+SHIFT+D or toggling in the menu the options (View > Single-document mode).

Jupiter Lab, menu item for toggling the Single-document mode

Answered By: Sven Haile

Other shortcuts didn’t worked for me in mac.

In Jupyter Lab 3.0 and later, there’s a toggle botton at the bottom of the screen like below:
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Click on Simple toggle button and you would be able to see all tabs.
Below trick works in the below jupyter version as follows:

jupyter core     : 4.7.1
jupyter-notebook : 6.3.0
qtconsole        : not installed
ipython          : 7.16.1
ipykernel        : 5.5.3
jupyter client   : 6.1.12
jupyter lab      : 3.0.0
nbconvert        : 6.0.7
ipywidgets       : not installed
nbformat         : 5.1.3
traitlets        : 4.3.3
Answered By: Dan
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