feat: support serving a gallery of notebooks #8056

peter-gy · 2026-01-29T19:57:41Z

📝 Summary

Enables running multiple marimo notebook files as a gallery of apps in the below style:

marimo run folder
marimo run folder another_folder
marimo run file_a.py file_b.py folder

When pointed to a local clone of https://github.com/marimo-team/learn this gives us:

Closes #3257

🔍 Description of Changes

I based this work on #4961, borrowing the idea of reusing the existing home page infrastructure used in marimo edit mode and adding gallery as a new frontend view in marimo run mode.

Gallery item links are encoded through /?file=<encoded> to avoid introducing new routing / mounting logic
Navigation is restricted so that we don't accept arbitrary /?file=<encoded> values
- extended marimo._server.file_router.ListOfFilesAppFileRouter to behave like an allowlist router
Preserved existing marimo run app.py -- --arg value behavior working while enabling marimo run file_a.py file_b.py folder and still allowing notebook args to be explicitly separated
Added a root directory heuristic for nicer URLs and less path leakage (via marimo._cli.cli.py._resolve_root_dir)
- e.g. if I run uv run marimo run /Users/petergy/Projects/opensource/marimo-team/learn. the learn repo is recognized as gallery root, so opening /Users/petergy/Projects/opensource/marimo-team/learn/functional_programming/05_functors.py will be available under http://localhost:2720/?file=functional_programming%2F05_functors.py
Gallery entries have auto-generated title and subtitle for now (notebook dir and file name piped through titleCase)

TODO before undrafting this

define --sandbox semantics
- per-notebook or per-gallery venv?
- should we create sandbox eagerly (we create all the venvs at cmd execution time) or lazily (create venv only on notebook visit)?

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mscolnick · 2026-01-29T21:36:30Z

cc @dmadisetti, its still in draft but can you check out the Sandbox semantics here

dmadisetti

I think this is a great start. Followups that might be useful:

return to home from an app page
thumbnails

As is, gallery sandbox falls back to ipc sandbox, which I think is fine. It provides consistency in experience.

We do need to fail fast if pyzmq is not installed like in sandboxed home.

But as is, even with pyzmq- this doesn't seem to work for --sandbox (at least locally, I'm getting blank screens for things that should otherwise work) and also --check.

I'd be OK raising an error for these flags, and following up in another PR. I think marimo run --sandbox falls under some of my wheelhouse so I can grab it if you'd like

marimo/_cli/cli.py

dmadisetti · 2026-01-29T21:53:25Z

marimo/_cli/cli.py

+    # correctness check - don't start the server if we can't import the module
+    for path in validated_paths:
+        if Path(path).is_file():
+            check_app_correctness(path)


We maybe want to do this on launch and not stop the server itself from spawning?

I think about this is more of a UX tradeoff than a purely technical one. Based on #3257 my understanding is that in gallery mode we're aiming at potentially non‑technical end users, so I lean toward fail‑fast at launch: if an app check fails, I'd rather surface that to the developer than risk an end user launching a broken app. Happy to discuss alternatives ofc. Maybe we add a CLI flag to toggle between lazy and eager checks?

dmadisetti · 2026-01-29T21:54:33Z

marimo/_server/api/endpoints/home.py

+        ]
+        file_count = len(marimo_files)
+        has_more = file_count >= MAX_FILES
+        return WorkspaceFilesResponse(


Not sure if we should dynamically load more apps? Torn on this (see comment above)

I see value in loading more apps dynamically but also see the associated concerns. Maybe let's consider adding a CLI flag to control this?

marimo/_server/file_router.py

marimo/_cli/cli.py

peter-gy · 2026-01-30T10:09:03Z

Thanks for the feedback @dmadisetti

I think this is a great start. Followups that might be useful:

return to home from an app page

For now I added a clickable marimo logo to go back.

Alternatively, we could go with a back arrow + "Gallery" text maybe or "Gallery / " breadcrumbs with Gallery clickable. I am not convinced though that everyone who deploys a multi-app env will want to call it "Gallery" (hence I just went with the logo for now)

thumbnails

That's exactly what we started to discuss with Myles. We'd want to generate OpenGraph content on the fly, (allowing users to overwrite it e.g. as PEP 723 metadata and add marimo tools thumbnails generate using playwright to snapshot the HTML output of a notebook and place it under __marimo__ folder. The developer experience around the metadata generation could be inspired by Next.js' generateMetadata: https://nextjs.org/docs/app/api-reference/functions/generate-metadata

As is, gallery sandbox falls back to ipc sandbox, which I think is fine. It provides consistency in experience.

We do need to fail fast if pyzmq is not installed like in sandboxed home.

But as is, even with pyzmq- this doesn't seem to work for --sandbox (at least locally, I'm getting blank screens for things that should otherwise work) and also --check.

I'd be OK raising an error for these flags, and following up in another PR. I think marimo run --sandbox falls under some of my wheelhouse so I can grab it if you'd like

That would be great. This way I can focus in this PR on better aesthetics through thumbnail (+ Partial<OpenGraph>) metadata generation. I modified the CLI to raise error on --sandbox and --check for now when running multiple apps.

peter-gy · 2026-01-30T13:38:52Z

This CI error does not seem to be related to changes made in this PR: https://github.com/marimo-team/marimo/actions/runs/21514574296/job/61989661450?pr=8056

mscolnick

amazing stuff! great work

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