Running NWB widgets remotely

Using Docker

You can easily deploy a webapp for visualizing NWB files using NWB widgets, Voila and Docker. Start by cloning the repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/NeurodataWithoutBorders/nwbwidgets.git
$ cd nwbwidgets/docker

Build a Docker image:

$ docker build -t nwbwidgets-voila .

Finally, run a container:

$ docker run -p 8866:8866 nwbwidgets-voila

By default, the Panel will run with enable_local_source=False (see Panel). To allow for local files browsering, run the container with:

$ docker run -p 8866:8866 -e ENABLE_LOCAL_SOURCE=True nwbwidgets-voila

If you want to skip the default Panel and instead run it for a specific NWB file, pass the s3 url as an ENV variable to the container:

$ docker run -p 8866:8866 -e S3_URL_NWBFILE=<s3_url_to_nwb_file> nwbwidgets-voila

Using Binder