How do I install packages using pip-tools?

How do I install packages using pip-tools?

To install packages using pip-tools, first ensure you have it installed. You can do this with pip install pip-tools.

What is the difference between pip and pip-tools?

Pip is a package manager for Python, while pip-tools helps manage dependencies and generates a requirements.txt file.

Can you show me how to create a requirements.in file?

Sure! You can create a requirements.in file by simply listing your desired packages, one per line, like this:

requests
flask

How do I compile the requirements.in to requirements.txt?

You can compile it by running the command pip-compile requirements.in, which will generate a requirements.txt with all dependencies.