# jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets

Interactive Widgets for the Jupyter Notebook

Repository: https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/ipywidgets
Homepage: https://ipywidgets.readthedocs.io
Language: TypeScript
License: BSD-3-Clause
License Family: permissive
Topics: jupyterlab-extension, jupyter-notebooks
Last push: 2026-08-19T07:43:12+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 90/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 74, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4156, "days_push": 14, "days_rel": 15, "gap_med": 170, "n_releases_24m": 6}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3326, forks 972 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:56.421403+00:00)

## What it is
ipywidgets is a Python library providing interactive HTML widgets (sliders, buttons, text inputs, etc.) for Jupyter notebooks and JupyterLab. It syncs Python state with browser-rendered UI so users can build interactive dashboards and exploratory tools directly in notebooks.

## Use cases
- add interactive sliders and controls to a jupyter notebook
- build interactive dashboards in jupyterlab
- make data exploration widgets in python notebooks
- create gui controls for teaching notebooks
- bind python functions to notebook ui widgets

## When to choose
- you work in Jupyter Notebook or JupyterLab and want interactive controls tied to Python code
- you are building educational or exploratory notebooks with parameter tuning
- you want a mature, BSD-licensed widget ecosystem with broad Jupyter support

## When to avoid
- you need widgets outside Jupyter (plain scripts, web apps, or other IDEs)
- you want production web application UIs rather than notebook tooling
- you need a framework-agnostic frontend component library

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: ui-components, data-visualization, developer-tools
- domain: data-science, developer-tools, data-visualization
- platform: python, browser
- tags: jupyter, interactive-widgets, notebook, jupyterlab-extension, ipython, web-server

## Member repositories
- jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets (main) score 90

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:56.421403+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:41:46.731965+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:56.421403+00:00, sha a261e87114e1)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.