Binder Project
The Binder Project is a software project to package and share interactive, reproducible environments. A Binder or "Binder-ready repository" is a code repository that contains both code and content to run, and configuration files for the environment needed to run it.{{Cite web|url=https://mybinder.readthedocs.io/en/latest/introduction.html#what-is-the-binder-project|title=Getting started with Binder — Binder 0.1b documentation|website=mybinder.readthedocs.io|access-date=2019-11-22}}
Since 2017, when the Binder Project was merged into the JupyterHub project,{{Cite web|url=https://opendreamkit.org/2018/03/15/jupyterhub-binder-convergence/|title=Toward versatile JupyterHub deployments, with the Binder and JupyterHub convergence|website=opendreamkit.org|access-date=2019-11-22}} the development communities share many people in common. A common use of Binder is for sharing a Jupyter notebook in a way that the recipient can immediately execute in a browser.{{Cite web|url=https://blog.jupyter.org/binder-2-0-a-tech-guide-2017-fd40515a3a84|title=Binder 2.0, a Tech Guide|last=Holdgraf|first=Chris|date=2017-11-30|website=Medium|language=en|access-date=2019-11-22}}
The Binder project maintains core libraries and documentation for running Binder services, which make those projects available, as well as BinderHub, a tool for deploying such services via common cloud computing environments. A public BinderHub portal is hosted by the community at {{mono|mybinder.org}}.{{Cite web|url=https://mybinder.org/|title=The Binder Project|website=mybinder.org|access-date=2019-11-22}}
== BinderHub ==
A BinderHub lets you launch a publicly executable version of a Binder repository. Given a URL to a repository, it generates a new URL that anyone can visit in a browser to interact with a running version of the code in that repository.
The public BinderHub, mybinder.org, load-balances Binder instances across a federation of contributing institutions, each of which is running its own BinderHub instance.{{Cite web|url=https://binderhub.readthedocs.io/en/latest/federation/federation.html|title=The BinderHub Federation — BinderHub 0.1.0 documentation|website=binderhub.readthedocs.io|access-date=2019-11-22}}