Use Jupyter Notebook as the editor in a workspace

Problem to solve

Jupyter Notebook is a popular browser-based editor among data scientists and developers working with large data sets. Currently, creating a remote development workspace only supports injecting the VS Code editor. This limits the functionality for data science use cases.

Proposal

When creating a workspace, offer Jupyter Notebook as an editor option.

We will inject the Jupyter Notebook binary into the workspace in place of the Web IDE/VS Code and you will be able to edit directly in the workspace using the Jupyter web-based IDE.

Open Questions

1. Can we also support JupyterLab? Should we _only support JupyterLab? Is there a reason to support both?
2. When we eventually show available workspaces in the Web IDE UI, how do we handle those that are injecting Jupyter Notebooks? We won't be able to take advantage of the client/host configuration if VS Code Server isn't running, so should we just hide those?
3. Are there any licensing limitations we need to explore?

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