Vuetify the voila tree

[marketneutral]

Filing an enhancement request ... would be very nice to have a Material Design tree page when you start voila in a directory without a single target notebook.

[maartenbreddels]

Good idea, not a high priority from our side at this moment, but for sure something we'd like to have.

[marketneutral]

In the meantime, I'm going to work on the following

• I put all the notebooks I want to serve into, say, /srv/voila/notebooks including a homepage.ipynb notebook, which I style with ipyvuetify
• I run voila in this directory
• my homepage.ipynb includes a Vuetify nice list or expansion panel, etc. populated with directory contents of /srv/voila/notebooks and meta-data (like "this notebook does X,Y,Z") pulled out of each notebook using scrapbook
• there is an icon for each item in the list where the href is http://server:8866/voila/render/ + the notebook name.
• I give the users the URL http://server:8866/voila/render/homepage.ipynb as the root

[maartenbreddels]

That's a nice workaround, once you have that it should be relatively easy to create a tree.html from it.

[marketneutral]

I made a project for this. Would love any comments!

https://github.com/marketneutral/voila-homepage