ipywidgets plays an essential part in the Jupyter ecosystem; it brings interactivity between user and data.
Widgets are eventful Python objects that often have a visual representation in the Jupyter Notebook or JupyterLab: a button, a slider, a text input, a checkbox…
More than a library of interactive widgets, ipywidgets is a powerful framework upon which it is straightforward to create new custom widgets. Developers can quickly start their own widgets library with best practices of code structure and packaging using the widget-cookiecutter project.