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id: jupyter-server
version: "2.20.0"
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license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# jupyter-server — The backend—i.e. core services, APIs, and REST endpoints—to Jupyter web applications.

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Popularity: top 1,000 on PyPI

## Install

pip install jupyter-server
uv add jupyter-server
poetry add jupyter-server

## Description

# Jupyter Server

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The Jupyter Server provides the backend (i.e. the core services, APIs, and REST endpoints) for Jupyter web applications like Jupyter notebook, JupyterLab, and Voilà.

For more information, read our [documentation here](http://jupyter-server.readthedocs.io/en/latest/?badge=latest).

## Installation and Basic usage

To install the latest release locally, make sure you have
[pip installed](https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installation/) and run:

```
pip install jupyter_server
```

Jupyter Server currently supports Python>=3.10 on Linux, OSX and Windows.

### Versioning and Branches

If Jupyter Server is a dependency of your project/application, it is important that you pin it to a version that works for your application. Jupyter Server follows semantic...

## AI interpretation — verify before relying

Jupyter Server provides the backend services, APIs, and REST endpoints that power Jupyter web applications like Jupyter Notebook, JupyterLab, and Voilà.

Verdict: Jupyter Server is a mature, actively maintained core infrastructure package for Jupyter ecosystems. It carries no known vulnerabilities, installs cleanly, and is licensed permissively. Suitable for production use as a dependency or standalone server.

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