With old Jupyter notebooks, I could create interactive plots via: import matplotlib.pyplot as plt %matplotlib notebook x = [1,2,3] y = [4,5,6] plt.figure() plt.plot(x,y) However, in JupyterLab, this gives an error: JavaScript output is disabled in JupyterLab I have also tried the magic (with jupyter-matplotlib installed): %matplotlib ipympl But that just returns: FigureCanvasNbAgg() Inline plots work, but they are not interactive plots: %matplotlib inline Continue reading...