Dockerfile

@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ RUN conda env update -q -f /tmp/environment.yml && \
     conda clean -y --all && \
     conda env export -n "root"
 
+# Add jupytext configuration
+# Copy jupytext's jupyter config to open md and script files as notebooks by default.
+RUN mkdir -p ${HOME}/.jupyter/labconfig
+COPY labconfig/*json ${HOME}/.jupyter/labconfig
+
 # RENKU_VERSION determines the version of the renku CLI
 # that will be used in this image. To find the latest version,
 # visit https://pypi.org/project/renku/#history.
@@ -47,4 +52,4 @@ RUN if [ -n "$RENKU_VERSION" ] ; then \
         fi \
     fi
 
-########################################################
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+########################################################

labconfig/default_setting_overrides.json

+{
+  "@jupyterlab/docmanager-extension:plugin": {
+    "defaultViewers": {
+      "markdown": "Jupytext Notebook",
+      "myst": "Jupytext Notebook",
+      "r-markdown": "Jupytext Notebook",
+      "quarto": "Jupytext Notebook",
+      "julia": "Jupytext Notebook",
+      "python": "Jupytext Notebook",
+      "r": "Jupytext Notebook"
+    }
+  }
+}

post-init.sh

@@ -4,10 +4,6 @@
 git submodule foreach git pull origin main
 rm -r demo && cp -r jupytext/demo demo
 
-# Copy jupytext's jupyter config to open md and script files as notebooks by default.
-mkdir -p ${HOME}/.jupyter/labconfig
-cp jupytext/binder/labconfig/* ${HOME}/.jupyter/labconfig
-
 # Create the notebook for our jupytext demo
 jupytext demo/get_started.md --to ipynb --update-metadata '{"jupytext":null}'