Hydrogen: How to use it?

[olegantonyan]

I'm probably stupid because I just cannot figure out how to use it.
apm install hydrogen successful, I can see hydrogen installed. Now what? I can open *.ipynb files, but these are just plain json. How to use atom instead of browser to work with ipynb files? Where to paste http://localhost:8888/?token=blablabla or somehow connect to a running jupyter notebook?

openSUSE Tumbleweed x86-64
Atom : 1.25.0-dev-0b52835bc
Electron: 1.6.15
Chrome : 56.0.2924.87
Node : 7.4.0

[BenRussert]

Check out our docs, starting with this page

Hydrogen works on plain text (e.g. .py, .R) files if you have a kernel installed. It can connect to notebook servers as you describe, but I would recommend starting a local kernel with hydrogen first to make sure things are working on your machine.

Feel free to reply w/ questions!

[olegantonyan]

Thank you @BenRussert
It works on py files, I can hit ctrl+enter and it will print the output (just like Avdi has in his emacs https://www.rubytapas.com/)

However, what I actually want is to use atom (or any other editor) instead of jupyter notebook web ui to work with ipynb files. Is this doable with hydrogen?

[BenRussert]

Hydrogen does not currently support the editing of .ipynb files like you describe. Hydrogen can generate ipynb from a text file, but not interactively edit them.

There is an older open issue #75 on this.