Anywidget Arrow helpers #894
Description
Describe the problem
It would be nice to simplify Arrow data transfer. I'd like to make it simple for widget developers using anywidget to take in Arrow data in their widget and transmit it to the frontend.
(It might also be worthwhile to have a discussion about simplifying data transfer in general. Could we have helpers for numpy, pydantic, etc?)
Describe the proposed solution
Maybe have a Python-side and JS-side helper for this?
Is there a way to make this easy? Would we need to require users to remember to depend on apache-arrow or flechette?
Open to thoughts. Is this not worth having in anywidget? Would this be best as a third-party package?
Importance
nice to have