Table of contents failing to display

[jrestes]

Hi, I am writing a document using the latex extension in Jupyter lab and the tableofcontents, listoffigures, and listoftables commands are failing to display any content. See the image below.

The beginning of my code is also shown below. I have checked that the compiler is generating the .toc, .lof and .lot files, I also checked by opening those files that their content is at it should be. It looks like each time I compile, these files appear for a few seconds in the project directory, before disappearing as the preview is updated. Is this what's supposed to happen? Has anyone dealt with this issue before?

Code:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{bm}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{hyperref}


\title{\textbf{Experimental Investigations of Donor-Acceptor Pairs in Diamond} \\
\large A summary of work done from January 2020 to June 2021}
\author{Jeremy Estes}
\date{\today}

\begin{document}

\maketitle

\setcounter{tocdepth}{3}
\tableofcontents
\listoffigures
\listoftables
\clearpage

\section{Introduction, Theoretical Model, Experimental Goals}

\subsection{Introduction}

This document provides a detailed summary of the work

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[julowe]

This is happening to me with a mybinder notebook and jupyterlab-latex v4.30.

This extension is deleting the .toc file. I found a workaround and I think I understand what is happening.

Workaround:
If you create a blank .toc file and then preview the .tex file, the first preview will fill that .toc file with content. I have to close the notebook tab with the .tex file in it and reopen it, and then the second preview/typsetting-run will work as expected and render a Table of contents (e.g. if you are using sample.tex, create a sample.toc file)

Or another way, and why I started down this path, in the notebook you can open a new terminal and just run xelatex sample.tex twice, that will generate a pdf with a ToC.

So I figured it was either the tex command the extension was running or some wrapping code. I found the cleanup routine which just deletes any files that weren't there in the first place. So .toc should probably be added to whitelist? That edit may also then close #163. I'd make a pull request but I think should be a very small edit, so I don't really want to set up a dev env just to test this.

And alas I'm doing all this in a mybinder notebook which is making things more roundabout, so I suppose (but did not test) that setting c.LatexConfig.cleanup = False would also work.

Verified with inotifywait -m . in the home dir that the .toc was being created and deleted