make the ci better at not install reflex deps for reflex-web

[adhami3310]

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Greptile Summary

This PR improves the CI dependency installation steps for reflex-web by replacing fragile grep-based package filtering with a more robust approach: listing all currently installed packages via uv pip list, then using uv pip compile --exclude to exclude them from resolution — ensuring that already-installed packages (like reflex and its transitive deps) are not reinstalled.

The approach is sound, but all three changed steps contain a critical typo that will break CI:

• The flag used is --excludes (plural), but uv pip compile only recognises --exclude (singular). This will cause uv to exit with an unrecognised argument error in every job that was updated: frontend in check_outdated_dependencies.yml, and reflex-web + reflex-web-macos in integration_tests.yml.
• The fix is a one-character change on each of the three affected lines: --excludes → --exclude.

Confidence Score: 4/5

Not safe to merge as-is — the --excludes typo will break all three updated CI jobs.

One P1 issue exists across all three changed locations: --excludes is not a valid uv pip compile flag (the correct flag is --exclude). This will cause the compile step to fail immediately upon execution, leaving CI broken for the frontend, reflex-web, and reflex-web-macos jobs. The fix is trivial (drop the trailing s), so once corrected the PR is straightforward and safe.

Both changed files need the same one-character fix on the uv pip compile line.

Important Files Changed

Filename	Overview
.github/workflows/check_outdated_dependencies.yml	Replaces grep-based reflex filtering with uv pip list + --exclude approach, but uses incorrect flag --excludes instead of --exclude, which will break the frontend job.
.github/workflows/integration_tests.yml	Two jobs (reflex-web, reflex-web-macos) updated to use uv pip list + --excludes approach, but the misspelled --excludes flag will cause both jobs to fail.

Flowchart

%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart TD
    A[uv pip list --format=json] -->|jq extract names| B[installed.txt]
    B --> C["uv pip compile pyproject.toml\n--no-deps --exclude installed.txt\n--output-file requirements.txt"]
    C --> D[requirements.txt - only NEW packages]
    D --> E[uv pip install -r requirements.txt]
    B --> F[rm installed.txt]
    F -.-> E

    style C fill:#f96,color:#000

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