Question about Jupyter Notebook and its use cases

[JanOlvegg]

I am wondering the use cases of Jupyter notebook. It's not an IDE, though the newest version Jupyter Lab can serve as that role. It feels more like a tool for experimenting and interacting with data more akin to a office application. Do people actually use Jupyter notebook as a production workflow?

Can you also tell me why it's implemented as a web app for local use? Normally, when I see apps of this type, it's run off a cloud. A good example would be something like Google Office. However, it seems strange to have a web app that runs off a local web server. Is this a way to reduce the number of crossplatform recoding by running it as a web app?

[snippsat]

Do people actually use Jupyter notebook as a production workflow?

Yes,there are many that use in diifrent ways in a production workflow.

Many organizations use notebooks in production,
especially when they come to a point where they want to share the functionality of a notebook with other people or non-technical users.

Can you also tell me why it's implemented as a web app for local use?

Beacuse using Browser offer much more flexible/interactive user interface and more features than a classic GUI interfafce can offer example .

Normally, when I see apps of this type, it's run off a cloud. A good example would be something like Google Office

It's the same with Jupyter Notebooks there are severals ways to run it in cloud examle:
Colab by Google.
GitHub announced in November 2022 that JupyterLab would be available in its online Coding platform called
Codespace.

Also VsCode can run Notebooks navtite in editor
GitHub can render Nootebooks(.ipynb) online.
Rendering Notebooks on GitHub

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I use Colab sometime(eg when graph is involved) when answer on this forum,it show result and user can also run code.
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