Hey! Author here. I'm working on open-source framework called Mercury. I'm building it to make notebooks sharing easy, especially with non-technical users. The Mercury can turn Python notebook to web application, dashboard, presentation, REST API or report. It has option to easily hide the code, schedule automatic execution, convert to PDF, and send email notifications. The Github repo: https://github.com/mljar/mercury
Mercury has a different architecture. The Voila keeps the live kernel and connection to UI (using Tornado framework). To use Voila you need to add widgets (with ipywidgets) to the notebook (mix UI code with analytics code).
The Mercury generates UI based on the YAML header (very simple, no need to mix UI with analytics code). When user tweaks widgets values, the whole notebook is executed with new parameters and converted with nbconvert (using Django + Celery). Mercury can serve multiple notebooks to multiple users on one server. It has option to export notebook to PDF or HTML. You can schedule the notebook execution with crontab string (for example `schedule: '30 8 * * 1-5'`) and add email notifications. You can easily add authentication to notebooks. It was designed to make notebook sharing fast and easy.
What is more, I'm thinking about including Voila into Mercury. So you will be able to serve Voila apps with Mercury. The end-goal is to make notebooks sharing easy.
