Question: should I use `%matplotlib widget` or `%matplotlib ipympl`

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3/5
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1-2 days
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25/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
jupyter-notebook, matplotlib
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Start with the README guidance for %matplotlib widget and compare it with the reported %matplotlib ipympl behavior in JupyterLab and VS Code. Review the linked Discourse experiment and determine what recommendation the documentation should give for existing %matplotlib notebook notebooks. Done means the README clearly states which backend to use and where it works.

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Description

the README suggests to use
%matplotlib widget

however based on a small experiment that I described also here
https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/interactive-matplotlib-in-jupyterlab-no-longer-working/20017/3?u=parmentelat

it seems like using
%matplotlib ipympl

works too, and even better in the sense that it works also in vs-code
so, which is best ?

(I have several hundreds of notebooks written with
%matplotlib notebook
and that now must be changed for jlab4/nb7 at least, so as far as possible Id like to change them only once ;-)

and thank you for the awesome tool 👍

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