binder

Following up on jupyterhub/binderhub#1017 (comment). In particular the comment about "reduce duplication".

A possible way to do that which I've seen in other projects is to add an endpoint to the backend from which the UI loads the config. We'd have an endpoint like binder.example.com/_config which returns a JSON which is then used to configure the dropdow

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
We currently only create and push tags in our release script. To bring Elyra more in line with similar projects (such as JupyterLab), we could consider adding Github releases as well.

Current:
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Objective

Python 3.6 and above supports type hints and optional statically typing of Python code. Since its introduction is has seen a lot of adoption in many Python projects in particular in larger code bases. Type hints are completely optional and are stripped by the Python parser before runtime.

I am not the only one @plumerai anymore who li

Checks should be added to add_edges and add_nodes that the node/edge being added is actually a valid node/edge object and if not we should fail with a clear error message.

Originally posted by @ianhi in cytoscape/ipycytoscape#214 (comment)

cc @sven5s