Investigate Updates for use on VEDA (notes from CryoCloud)

[weiji14]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Improve JupyterLab experience for VEDA users with more functionality.

Describe the solution you'd like

Following CryoCloud which updated its JupyterHub in Jan 2024 (CryoInTheCloud/hub-image#103, CryoInTheCloud/hub-image#106) to add more extensions. Copying from @tsnow03 changelog in Slack:

• Jupyter Collaboration - allows co-coding functionality similar to how GoogleDocs works.
• Python 3.11 (or 3.12 as soon as the rest of the environment packages support it)
• JupyterLab4 - brings a lot of new features to our JupyterHub
• Jupyter-MyST - makes it easier to develop rich, computational narratives, technical documentation, and open scientific communication (it's a markdown renderer for .md files and markdown cells in notebooks)
• HDF5web - a library for easily viewing HDF5 files
• VScode binder plugin - a powerful code editor that can have its own co-coding functionality plus many advanced capabilities and improved debugging over Jupyter Notebooks
• Jupyter-AI - you can integrate your favorite Generative AI (such as ChatGPT) and use it for in line code development (using %%ai), and it includes a conversational assistant
• QGIS 3.34 - substantial enhancements to our previous QGIS

++ A bunch of other visualization packages (cartopy, plotly, matplotlib widget)

Describe alternatives you've considered

Some of these updates can and should happen on https://github.com/pangeo-data/pangeo-docker-images/tree/master/pangeo-notebook, especially core libraries like Python, JupyterLab, etc. But the Jupyter extensions should be customized to VEDA.

Additional context

Opening this on behalf of @wildintellect who suggested bringing in some of the cool updates CryoCloud is doing on their JupyterHub from Cryosphere scientists, tracked at CryoInTheCloud/hub-image#102

[weiji14]

Rob from JPL (MAAP) pointed out that jupyter-fs is more compatible with JupyterLab4 MAAP-Project/Community#768. What is VEDA on?

Originally posted by @wildintellect in https://github.com/NASA-IMPACT/veda-analytics/issues/94#issuecomment-1921875466

[wildintellect]

• Upgade to Pangeo would upgrade JupyterHub Track and test upgrade of pangeo-notebook image in veda-jh-environments #41

[wildintellect]

Jupyter s3 Browser as an alternative to s3fuse mounting of buckets.