Creating a docker image from jupyter notebook with jupyter-nodejs kernel

[jan-osch]

Hi!
Note: I am new both to jupyter and docker.
I am struggling to create a docker image from the base image: https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/ that would also contain jupyter-nodejs.
I added nodejs to the new image via ubuntu apt-get but jupyter-nodejs installation always fails in some way. Could you share some advice / help me to create such image?

I think such a docker image with nice web jupyter notebook for python and nodejs would be extremely useful.

[jaredly]

What's the error you're getting? I've done a decent amount of docker, so I can probably help.

[jan-osch]

Managed to fix it. Here is a working Dockerfile

#jupyter node.js + python2 + python3 as docker container
FROM jupyter/notebook


# install wget
RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get install -y wget

# install nodejs
WORKDIR /tmp
RUN wget https://nodejs.org/download/release/v0.12.9/node-v0.12.9-linux-x64.tar.gz
RUN tar xzf node-v0.12.9-linux-x64.tar.gz
RUN sudo cp -rp node-v0.12.9-linux-x64 /usr/local/
RUN sudo ln -s /usr/local/node-v0.12.9-linux-x64 /usr/local/node
ENV PATH /usr/local/node/bin:$PATH

# install jupyter-nodejs
RUN mkdir -p  $HOME/.ipython/kernels/nodejs
RUN wget https://github.com/notablemind/jupyter-nodejs/releases/download/v1.1.0/jupyter-nodejs-1.1.0.tgz
RUN tar xf jupyter-nodejs-1.1.0.tgz
WORKDIR /tmp/package
RUN npm install && node install.js

# change directory back to /notebooks
WORKDIR /notebooks

[jaredly]

glad to hear it!