flay

Important

This project is in a very experimental/alpha stage and can definitely not be used in a productive way so far

A utility for bundling, treeshaking and minifying your python modules and scripts and building OCI container images out of them.

One day I was tasked with building a docker container for a python project and was frustrated with the fact that I have to put all the bloat into it. This cannot be too difficult I thought...

Goals

Step 1

• a working pipeline for bundling, treeshaking and minifying modules
• a working CLI with no configuration effort for simple projects

Step 2

• support for shared objects (i.e. rust based libraries such as pydantic or orjson)
• support for modules with external files such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript...
• support for bundling into "one-file"-scripts as far as possible

Step 3

• automatically build OCI container images from your project by integrating buildah and possibly other building tools as building backends with presets provided by flay or bring your own ???
• PEP517 compliant build backend for integration with other tooling

Comparison to other tools

snakepack

TODO...

pyodide-pack

TODO...

pyinstaller

TODO...

nukita

TODO...