# Package-centric Galaxy You clone Galaxy as a [Monorepo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monorepo) for its Python backend. This packages directory allows us to distribute smaller connected repositories out of individual Galaxy components. CI ensures these repositories have valid dependencies and such defined by running each components tests in isolation. ## Development Typically Galaxy developers develop against the monorepo but there are times when developing against a small unit of Galaxy might make sense - such as to keep an AI (or human cognitive) context as small as possible. This can be done by treating Galaxy as a [uv workspace](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/concepts/projects/workspaces/). The pyproject.toml file in this directory defines a workspace for Galaxy and allows development and testing of individual packages with [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/). Here is an example workflow that will run tests for a specific package after setting up a virtual environment for that package. $ git clone https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy.git $ cd galaxy/packages $ cd auth $ uv sync --all-extras $ uv run pytest tests When switching between projects it is just important to remember to rerun the sync command for that project. The package ``Makefile`` has been updated to use ux also, so the above can be simplified to just: $ git clone https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy.git $ cd galaxy/packages $ cd auth $ make test If the environment has already been setup and you wish to just re-run the tests. The ``make _test`` command be used to just do the testing in the existing environment without messing with ``sync`` and adjusting dependencies. The ``Makefile`` can also be used for typechecking. $ git clone https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy.git $ cd galaxy/packages $ cd auth $ make mypy $ make _mypy # a shortcut to just run mypy on an existing updated environment This is equivalent to syncing the uv environment and then adding Galaxy's type checking dependencies to it. $ uv sync --all-extras $ uv pip install -r ../../lib/galaxy/dependencies/pinned-typecheck-requirements.txt $ uv run mypy . The ``Makefile`` can also be used for linting. $ git clone https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy.git $ cd galaxy/packages $ cd auth $ make lint $ make _lint # a shortcut to just run ruff on an existing updated environment This is equivalent to syncing the uv environment and then adding Galaxy's linting dependencies to it. $ uv sync --all-extras $ uv pip install -r ../../lib/galaxy/dependencies/pinned-lint-requirements.txt $ uv run ruff check .