Adding dependencies that are not in the registery

[JurajLieskovsky]

When working locally I have the following file structure

├── notebook.py
└── my_module/
    ├── __init__.py
    ├── file1.py
    ├── file2.py
    :

to keep as much of my code as standard .py files. I would now like to host my project on molab. Unfortunately "Mirror from GitHub" works only on individual notebooks.

Ideally I could mirror the whole repository, but I can imagine a workaround where I would add my_module as a dependency (pointing to the repository) in a pyproject file. Am I on the right track?

[gistrec]

You're on the right track. pip/uv accept VCS references directly in a dependency list, and the same works in a marimo notebook's PEP 723 metadata block, which molab installs with uv:

# /// script
# dependencies = [
#   "my_module @ git+https://github.com/<you>/<repo>.git@<tag-or-sha>",
# ]
# ///

Two things that bite first:

• The repo has to be an installable package, not just a folder - add a pyproject.toml with a [build-system] at the repo root that declares my_module as the package. Your current notebook.py + my_module/ layout isn't installable as-is
• Pin to a tag or full commit SHA (a bare branch ref just refetches HEAD), and keep the repo public - a private one would need credentials uv can't supply inside molab