[GSOC 25] Enhanced Interactive Pipeline Development Environment for JupyterLab #35128
Description
GSoC 2025 Progress Tracker
Student: [Canyu CHEN] (@Chenzo1001)
Mentors: [XQ Hu] (@liferoad)
Organization: [Apache Beam]
Proposal Link: Here
📌 Project Overview
BeamVision significantly enhances the Apache Beam development experience within JupyterLab by providing a unified, visual interface for pipeline inspection and analysis. This project successfully delivered a production-ready JupyterLab extension that replaces fragmented workflows with an integrated workspace, featuring a dynamic side panel for pipeline visualization and a multi-tab interface for comparative workflow analysis.
Core Achievements:
Modernized Extension: Upgraded the JupyterLab Sidepanel to v4.x, ensuring compatibility with the latest ecosystem and releasing the package on both NPM and PyPI.
YAML Visualization Suite: Implemented a powerful visual editor for Beam YAML, combining a code editor, an interactive flow chart (built with @xyflow/react-flow), and a collapsible key-value panel for intuitive pipeline design.
Enhanced Accessibility & Stability: Added pip installation support and fixed critical bugs in Interactive Beam, improving stability and user onboarding.
Community Engagement: Active participation in the Beam community, including contributing to a hackathon project and successfully integrating all work into the Apache Beam codebase via merged Pull Requests.
Key Objectives:
- Taking part in Beam Hackathon hackathon demo
- Upgrade JupyterLab version of the Sidepanel to 4.x ( PR #34495 )
- Fix some bugs of Interactive Beam or Sidepanel ( PR #35148 PR #35195 )
- Implement Yaml visualization panel (Including yaml editor, flow chart and editable key-value panel) ( PR #35947 )
- Add pip support on the JupyterLab extension ( PR #35399 )
- Writing development documents about yaml visualization panel and blogs about GSoC development experiences.
🗓 Timeline
Community Bonding Period (May 1 - May 31)
- Establish dev environment (Beam 2.65, JupyterLab 4.3)
- Upgrade the JupterLab version of Sidepanel.
- Attend Beam College and its hackathon. hackathon demo
Coding Phase 1 (June 1 - June 30)
Milestone 1:
- Fix crash problem when
pip install apache-beam[interactive]on Google Colab. - Release the upgraded NPM package apache-beam-jupyterlab-sidepanel v4.0
- Release the package on PyPI (apache-beam-jupyterlab-sidepanel)
Coding Phase 2 (July 1 - July 31)
Milestone 2:
- Test the
beam-interactiveofficial examples and demos on GCP under Jupyterlab 4.x - GSoC Mid-term evaluation.
- Designing visualization capabilities for the Beam YAML.
Coding Phase 3 (August 1 - August 31)
Milestone 3:
- Impement the pipeline visualization flow chart with typescript package @xyflow/react-flow
- Implement collapsible visualization panel
- Improve designing documents.
Final Phase (September 1 - September 9)
- Final evaluation
🎯 Final Deliverables
- Upgraded JupyterLab Sidepanel extension
- Beam hackathon entry
- Pip support on the JupyterLab extension
- Yaml visualization editor
- Fixed bugs
- Release blog about GSoC development experiences