Renamed to pyviz_comms and added Python package

.gitignore

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 lib/
 node_modules/
 *.egg-info/
+__pycache__

README.md

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-# jupyterlab_pyviz
+# pyviz_comms
 
-A JupyterLab extension for rendering PyViz content
+Offers a simple bidirectional communication architecture for PyViz tools
+including support for Jupyter comms in both the classic notebook and
+Jupyterlab.
 
-## Prerequisites
+There are two installable components in this repository: a Python
+component used by various PyViz tools and an extension to enable
+Jupyterlab support.
 
-* JupyterLab
+## Installing the Jupyterlab extension
 
-## Installation
+Jupyterlab users will need to install the Jupyterlab pyviz extension:
 
 ```bash
 jupyter labextension install @pyviz/jupyterlab_pyviz
 ```
 
-## Development
+## Developing the Jupyterlab extension
 
 For a development install (requires npm version 4 or later), do the following in the repository directory:
 
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 npm run build
 jupyter lab build
 ```
+
+## The ``pyviz_comms`` Python package
+
+The ``pyviz_comms`` Python package is used by pyviz projects and can be
+pip and conda installed.

conda.recipe/meta.yaml

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+{% set sdata = load_setup_py_data() %}
+
+package:
+  name: pyviz_comms
+  version: {{ sdata['version'] }}
+
+source:
+  path: ..
+
+build:
+  noarch: python
+  number: 0
+  script: python setup.py --quiet install --single-version-externally-managed --record record.txt
+
+
+requirements:
+  build:
+    - python
+    - setuptools
+  run:
+    - python
+
+test:
+  imports:
+    - pyviz_comms
+
+about:
+  home: www.holoviews.org
+  summary: Bidirectional communication for PyViz
+  license: BSD 3-Clause