Posit Workbench overview and update

Elsbeth Geranium, Dec 2022

Andrie de Vries

What is Workbench

Agenda

• What is Workbench

• Accessibility

• New posit branding

• The python first release

• VS Code sessions

• Admin and user guide

• Release plan

• You can book me

Introduction

Posit Workbench is a browser-based IDE that allows users to perform their work in a remote server environment. Users can choose between four different IDEs:

• RStudio Pro
• VS Code
• JupyterLab
• Jupyter Notebook

What’s new

• Many, many improvements to the python experience, especially in VS-Code

• NEWS.md: https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio-pro/blob/main/NEWS.md

Accessibility

Agenda

• What is Workbench

• Accessibility

• New posit branding

• The python first release

• VS Code sessions

• Admin and user guide

• Release plan

• You can book me

Accessibility

• Electron port

• Accessibility a primary outcome

Resources:

• Slack: #accessibility

• Confluence: https://rstudiopbc.atlassian.net/l/cp/NdYq97RB

New posit branding

Agenda

• What is Workbench

• Accessibility

• New posit branding

• The python first release

• VS Code sessions

• Admin and user guide

• Release plan

• You can book me

Branding

• Rebrand user interface

• New colour scheme

The python first release

Agenda

• What is Workbench

• Accessibility

• New posit branding

• The python first release

• VS Code sessions

• Admin and user guide

• Release plan

• You can book me

Installation

• Pre-install VS Code extension

• Install VS Code by default

Initiating sessions

• New user interface to graphically select the editor of choice

VS Code sessions

Agenda

• What is Workbench

• Accessibility

• New posit branding

• The python first release

• VS Code sessions

• Admin and user guide

• Release plan

• You can book me

VS Code sessions

Improved handling and proxying of:

• FastAPI

• Flask

• Shiny for Python

These types of content can now be automatically rendered in the UI, in addition to:

• dash

• streamlit

Python workbench jobs

Starting a python workbench job

Inspecting job output

Admin and user guide

Agenda

• What is Workbench

• Accessibility

• New posit branding

• The python first release

• VS Code sessions

• Admin and user guide

• Release plan

• You can book me

Admin guide

Updated admin guide

https://docs.posit.co/ide/server-pro/latest/

Workbench user guide

Brand new user guide

https://docs.posit.co/ide/server-pro/user/

RStudio user guide

Brand new user guide

https://docs.posit.co/ide/user/

Release plan

Agenda

• What is Workbench

• Accessibility

• New posit branding

• The python first release

• VS Code sessions

• Admin and user guide

• Release plan

• You can book me

Target release date

• Expected release date: by December 16.

• Currently working on reviewing documentation

• Verification has started

You can book me

Agenda

• What is Workbench

• Accessibility

• New posit branding

• The python first release

• VS Code sessions

• Admin and user guide

• Release plan

• You can book me

You can book me

• I want to speak to Python first customers

• Please book me