Don't build the interactive terminal separately

Author: agriyakhetarpal

.github/workflows/docbuild-and-upload.yml

@@ -59,10 +59,6 @@ jobs:
     - name: Build documentation
       run: doc/make.py --warnings-are-errors
 
-    - name: Build the interactive terminal
-      working-directory: web/interactive_terminal
-      run: jupyter lite build
-
     - name: Build documentation zip
       run: doc/make.py zip_html
 

web/interactive_terminal/README.md

@@ -6,33 +6,24 @@ An interactive REPL to easily try `pandas` in the browser, powered by JupyterLit
 
 ## Build
 
-The interactive REPL is built with the `jupyter lite` CLI.
-
-First make sure `jupyterlite` and a kernel are installed:
-
-```bash
-python -m pip install jupyterlite-core
-python -m pip install jupyterlite-pyodide-kernel
-```
-
-Then in `web/interactive_terminal`, run the following command:
-
-```bash
-jupyter lite build
-```
+The interactive REPL can be as a part of the documentation build process
+with Sphinx using the `jupyterlite-sphinx` extension. Please refer to the
+`doc/make.py` file and the [pandas docs development workflow](https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/development/contributing_documentation.html#how-to-build-the-pandas-documentation) for more information.
 
 ## Configuration
 
-This folder contains configuration files for the interactive terminal powered by JupyterLite:
+The `doc/source/` folder contains shared configuration files for the interactive terminal powered by JupyterLite:
 
 - `jupyter_lite_config.json`: build time configuration, used when building the assets with the `jupyter lite build` command
 - `jupyter-lite.json` run time configuration applied when launching the application in the browser
 
-This interactive `pandas` JupyterLite deployment enables a couple of optimizations to only include the `repl` app in the generated static assets, and disables source maps, which can make the assets smaller and faster to load, at the cost of
-debugging capabilities.
+This interactive `pandas` JupyterLite deployment enables optimizations by removing unused shared packages
+and disabling source maps, which can make the assets smaller and faster to load, at the cost of debugging
+capabilities.
 
 To learn more about it, check out the JupyterLite documentation:
 
 - Optimizations: https://jupyterlite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howto/configure/advanced/optimizations.html
 - JupyterLite schema: https://jupyterlite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/schema-v0.html
-- CLI reference: https://jupyterlite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/cli.html
+- `jupyterlite-sphinx` extension: https://jupyterlite-sphinx.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
+- `jupyter lite` CLI reference: https://jupyterlite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/cli.html

web/pandas/try.md

@@ -6,7 +6,12 @@ Try our experimental [JupyterLite](https://jupyterlite.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
 
 **Running it requires a reasonable amount of bandwidth and resources (>70 MiB on the first load), so it may not work properly on all devices or networks.**
 
+<!-- This JupyterLite deployment is reused from the one built using the `jupyterlite-sphinx` Sphinx extension
+as a part of the interactive docs utilities in the pandas documentation.
+
+To debug locally, replace the URL substring below with "../doc/build/html/lite/<...>", as appropriate. -->
+
 <iframe
-  src="./lite/repl/index.html?toolbar=1&kernel=python&execute=0&code=import%20pandas%20as%20pd%0Adf%20%3D%20pd.DataFrame%28%7B%22num_legs%22%3A%20%5B2%2C%204%5D%2C%20%22num_wings%22%3A%20%5B2%2C%200%5D%7D%2C%20index%3D%5B%22falcon%22%2C%20%22dog%22%5D%29%0Adf"
+  src="./docs/lite/repl/index.html?toolbar=1&kernel=python&execute=0&code=import%20pandas%20as%20pd%0Adf%20%3D%20pd.DataFrame%28%7B%22num_legs%22%3A%20%5B2%2C%204%5D%2C%20%22num_wings%22%3A%20%5B2%2C%200%5D%7D%2C%20index%3D%5B%22falcon%22%2C%20%22dog%22%5D%29%0Adf"
   style="width: 100%; max-width: 650px; height: 600px; border: 1px solid #130753;"
 ></iframe>