From 27b8e6d5d0bfc3b2bcb5b13c3a23c1c3392703bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martha Cryan <martha.cryan326@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2025 19:47:53 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Update CONTRIBUTING.md to include jupyter lab local
 development instructions

---
 CONTRIBUTING.md | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index ad666ea805..1201389ad8 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -120,6 +120,12 @@ you can install all packages with:
 pip install -e '.[dev]'
 ```
 
+If you're testing local changes in Jupyter Lab or Jupyter Notebook, you'll want to run:
+```bash
+pip install jupyter
+jupyter labextension develop .
+```
+
 These commands also create an *editable install* of plotly.py
 so that you can test your changes iteratively without having to rebuild the plotly.py package explicitly;
 for more information please see