AiiDAlab doesnt display widgets when installing QE App with edge image

[AndresOrtegaGuerrero]

When using the full-stack:edge image and installing qe app. The app doesnt displayed the widgets

@superstar54 and I reproduce the same problem.

I noticed that if i install ipywidget 7.8.5 the app can render the widgets , however ,
widgetsnbextension 3.6.10 (gets upgraded causing other issues)

[danielhollas]

Is this working on latest? What is the version of ipywidgets before you reinstalled it?

[AndresOrtegaGuerrero]

Yes, it does work with the latest, Xing did the test. And the ipywidgets before was 7.7.4

[danielhollas]

Can you provide the outputs of pip list --user for both the images after you install qeapp?
(make sure you pull the "latest" latest image :-) )

The only change since last version was the update of aiidalab-home package. We did drop the widgetsnbextension pin there, but I wouldn't have though it would make the difference since we still pin it in aiidalab-widgets-base.

Some more questions:

1. how are you installing qeapp? Through appstore? Which version?
2. Which version of AWB are you currently using in QeAPP.
3. Are you doing these tests in a completely fresh environment (i.e. you pull the image and start a fresh container with new volumes attached)?

widgetsnbextension 3.6.10 (gets upgraded causing other issues)

Can you tell more about these issues? We were hoping that the widgetsnbextension pin is no longer needed.

[AndresOrtegaGuerrero]

So i did a new profile in aiidala-launch. and i pull the full-stack:edge image

I installed the app using the appstore , I did the pre-releases.
Currently, the main branch of qe app has these pre-requisites

install_requires =
    aiida-core~=2.2,<3
    Jinja2~=3.0
    aiida-quantumespresso~=4.7
    aiidalab-widgets-base[optimade]==2.3.0a2
    aiida-pseudo~=1.4
    filelock~=3.8
    importlib-resources~=5.2
    aiida-wannier90-workflows==2.3.0
    pymatgen==2024.5.1
    anywidget==0.9.13
    table_widget~=0.0.2

[AndresOrtegaGuerrero]

Can you tell more about these issues? We were hoping that the widgetsnbextension pin is no longer needed.

I forgot , when the widgetsnbextension gets upgrde to 3.6.10 , the QE app doesn't render the rest of the app only the logo

[danielhollas]

Can you list the actually installed packages with pip list --user after the installation in a fresh container? And then do the same for the latest image? I don't understand why they should be different.

[superstar54]

Hi @danielhollas , the difference I found is:

• edge: ipywidgets==7.8.5
• latest: ipywidgets==7.7.4

do you recall at which point the ipywidgets is upgraded?

[danielhollas]

ipywidgets is first installed with aiidalab-home into the image. As you probably already found out, the culprit is likely that I unpined the widgetsnbextension in aiidalab/aiidalab-home#179.
If it is the case that `ipywidgets>=7.8" breaks QeApp, the proper fix is to pin the version there as well.

Can you get the actual error that stop the application from loading? You can look into the JavaScript console to see if there are any errors there. If there are errors in the Python backend, they might not be seen in appmode and you'll need open the jupyter notebook and execute QeApp there.