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nteract/hydrogen

:atom: Run code interactively, inspect data, and plot. All the power of Jupyter kernels, inside your favorite text editor. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/nteract/hydrogen · homepage · TypeScript · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

65/100

  • Activity 93
  • Release rhythm 8
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 4133
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 45
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

4020 stars · 339 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Hydrogen is an Atom editor plugin that brings Jupyter kernel-based interactive coding to any text file, letting users run code line-by-line or by cells with inline results, plots, and rich media. It supports any Jupyter kernel (Python, R, Julia, JavaScript, and more), remote kernel gateways, and notebook import/export.

Use cases

  • run python code interactively inside my editor
  • execute code line by line and see inline results
  • plot matplotlib charts inline while coding
  • connect to a remote jupyter kernel gateway
  • convert a script file to a jupyter notebook
  • inspect variables and get completions from a running kernel
  • run R snippets interactively in atom

When to choose

  • you already use Atom locally and want Jupyter-style interactive execution in plain text files
  • you need to export or import .ipynb notebooks from a text editor
  • you want kernel-agnostic interactive coding across many languages

When to avoid

  • you are starting fresh - Atom is sunset and new packages cannot be published; use VS Code's Jupyter integration, PyCharm, or nteract instead
  • you need a full notebook UI with cell results saved in the file
  • you rely on active maintenance or community support

Facets

plugin · maturity abandoned

developer-tools data-science data-visualization chat-interface data-science developer-tools text-editors data-visualization windows editor-plugin cross-platform jupyter-kernels atom-editor interactive-coding repl ipython notebook-export sunsetted macos linux

9 sources

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
nteract/hydrogenmain65

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="nteract/hydrogen")

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