🔧 Migrate from pip to uv for dependency management
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100
Research direction
Start by reviewing the uv-generated headers in requirements/*.txt and the existing Docker configuration, then check CLAUDE.md, CI/CD pipelines, Taskfile or Makefile commands, and development setup scripts for pip usage. Done means dependency installation uses uv consistently and has been tested in local, Docker, and Heroku environments without changing application dependencies.
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Description
Description
Migrate the project's dependency management from pip to uv for faster and more reliable package installation and resolution.
Context
The project currently uses pip for installing dependencies, but already uses uv for compiling requirements files (as seen in requirements/*.txt headers). We should fully migrate to uv for all dependency management operations to benefit from its speed and improved dependency resolution.
Benefits
- Speed: uv is significantly faster than pip for package installation (10-100x in many cases)
- Better dependency resolution: More reliable conflict detection and resolution
- Consistency: Already using uv for requirements compilation, this would unify our tooling
- Lock file support: Better reproducibility across environments
Scope
- Update Docker configuration to use
uv pip installinstead ofpip install - Update local development documentation (CLAUDE.md) with uv installation instructions
- Update CI/CD pipelines if applicable
- Update Taskfile/Makefile commands to use uv
- Update development setup scripts
- Test in all environments (local, Docker, Heroku)
References
- uv documentation
- Current usage: Already using
uv pip compilefor requirements files
Notes
This is a tooling change that should not affect the actual dependencies or application behavior, only the installation process.
- Dominant language
- Python
- Stars
- 17
- Forks
- 27
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
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