There has been some interest in using Pluto notebooks in Colab, and although I realize it’s not quite the fully supported experience that’s requested, I thought I’d share one approach to get going:
using Pkg
Pkg.add("Pluto", io=devnull)
using Pluto
port = 1234
@async Pluto.run(; port=port, require_secret_for_open_links=false, require_secret_for_access=false)
Then, using the same mechanism exposed in the google.colab Python library, one can obtain a link through Colab’s proxy to the host:
using IJulia
url = "https://localhost:$port"
display(HTML("""
<div id="js-output"></div>
<script>(async (port, element) => {
var outputDiv = document.getElementById('js-output');
const url = await google.colab.kernel.proxyPort(port);
const anchor = document.createElement('a');
anchor.href = new URL('/', url).toString();
anchor.target = '_blank';
anchor.setAttribute('data-href', url + '/');
anchor.textContent = '$url';
outputDiv.appendChild(anchor);
}) (1234, window.element)
</script>"""))
We currently do not pre-install Pluto.jl, so install and startup takes a minute or so:
Now, visiting the output link launches a Pluto notebook running on your Colab VM:
