title: How to get ipywidgets working in Jupyter Lab?
body: <p>In Jupyter Notebook, ipywidgets work fine, however they seem to not work in Jupyter Lab (which is supposedly better than Notebook).</p>
  
  <p>I followed these <a href="https://ipywidgets.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples/Using%20Interact.html" rel="noreferrer">directions</a>.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Step 1:</strong> Installed Node.js  (<a href="https://nodejs.org/en/" rel="noreferrer">https://nodejs.org/en/</a>)</p>
  
  <p><strong>Step 2:</strong> Installed requirements on Python 3 with conda:</p>
  
  <pre><code>conda install -c conda-forge ipywidgets
  jupyter labextension install @jupyter-widgets/jupyterlab-manager
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Unfortunately, basic widgets do not work inside the jupyter lab notebook:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/lQvVa.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/lQvVa.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>