is there a way to hide cells without using cell meta data?

[murphyk]

Hi

I understand from https://jupyterbook.org/en/stable/content/metadata.html that the way to hide code cells is to insert cell meta data to contain

 {
    "tags": [
        "hide-cell"
    ]
}

Unfortunately I am developing my notebooks inside VS code, which currently does not support this feature
(see this issue). Is there another way within jbook to hide cells,
or do I have to switch my workflow to using jupyter lab (say)?

[mmcky]

@murphyk It sounds like you're authoring in ipynb notebooks. The project is currently working on tooling to render myst in that context via mystjs but that project is still in development. We are looking forward to that functionality (cc: @rowanc1 @chrisjsewell)

At quantecon our "typical" workflow is to prototype in a notebook and then move to use myst:md files to make version control easier on GitHub etc. There is a tool jupytext that lets you move (fairly) seamlessly between ipynb and md files (of various flavours, including myst).

I mention this as then the code-cell items are directives in the text file which gives you access to all the cell metadata just like any other directive in a text editing environment, such as:

```{code-cell} python
---
tags: [hide-output]
---
<code>
```

Here is an example md file if you're interested in that workflow.

Not sure if that helps, for your workflow choices. It would be nice to have more convenient access to tags in the vscode environment.

[agoose77]

Just an update: jupyterlab-myst>=0.1.7a4 has reasonable support for MyST markdown rendering. It's not perfect, but if you want to use JupyterLab you're welcome to give it a try. It relies on the features that @rowanc1 and @chrisjsewell et al. have been working on.