Binder allows you to create custom computing environments that can be shared and used by many remote users. It is powered by BinderHub, which is an open-source tool that deploys the Binder service in the cloud. One-such deployment lives here, at mybinder.org, and is free to use. For more information about the mybinder.org deployment and the team that runs it, see About mybinder.org.
This documentation provides information for those who wish to use a pre-existing BinderHub deployment such as mybinder.org. If you’d like documentation on how to create and administer your own BinderHub deployment, see the BinderHub documentation, which guides you through deploying your own BinderHub.
The following sections discuss some more in-depth topics on preparing and sharing your Binder repository. How-To guides are shorter, actionable patterns that accomplish something specific. Tutorials are more high-level and thorough, and often cover more conceptual topics.
mybinder.org
The Turing Way also maintains a Zero-to-Binder tutorial in 3 common programming languages.
Julia
Python
R
The following is a list of sample repositories showing off various things you can do with Binder configuration files.
See the Binder Examples GitHub organization for more Binder repositories demonstrating its functionality.
These pages cover more advanced topics in the Binder ecosystem, community guidelines for users and developers, and information about the mybinder.org service.
Binder community
If you publish work that uses Binder, please consider citing the Binder paper from the 2018 SciPy proceedings!
Here is a citation that you can use:
Jupyter et al., "Binder 2.0 - Reproducible, Interactive, Sharable Environments for Science at Scale." Proceedings of the 17th Python in Science Conference. 2018. doi://10.25080/Majora-4af1f417-011
https://doi.org/10.25080/Majora-4af1f417-011