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"Error displaying widget" with jupyterlab on the littlest jupyterhub

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
jupyter
Domain
frontend

Research direction

Start by reproducing the example in the littlest JupyterHub environment using the listed JupyterLab, ipympl, Matplotlib, and jupyter-matplotlib versions, then compare it with the working JupyterHub setup. Done means the example displays its widget in JupyterLab without the reported error.

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Description

On the littlest jupyterhub environment

The example works fine on jupyterhub but I have the message
"Error displaying widget" with jupyterlab

Jupyterlab 0.35.6
ipympl 0.3.3
Matplotlib 3.1.0
Jupyter-matplotlib 0.4.2

Dominant language
Jupyter Notebook
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