I am trying to create an extension for jupyter-lab that interacts with a running ipython kernel, running either in a console or a notebook.
As a minimal example I am trying to get two "hello world" type programs. The first should print a message to stdout of the running kernel that is input in the extension. The second should log a message to the console of the extension that is input in the running ipython kernel.
To understand jupyter-lab extension I started with the astronomy picture of the day! tutorial. Although this covers the basics of extensions this does not address interacting with a running kernel.
From "really confused with jupyter notebook lab extensions and ipywidgets"! it seems I should be looking at the Comms module however this is documentation for Jupyter-notebook and not for Jupyter-lab. As far as I understand, Jupyter-lab is sufficiently different under the hood that this should not work.
Could someone explain to me how to create an extension that interacts with a running kernel and what the appropriate documentation/tutorial is to look at if it exists?
