Exporting to html-wasm with imported modules

[q-wertz]

Hello,

not sure if blind or misunderstanding something, but I fail when trying to export a marimo notebook that imports a python file with some extra functions to html-wasm.

Project layout:

.
└── Project directory/
    ├── helpfunctions/
    │   ├── __init__.py
    │   └── helpfunctions.py
    └── marimo_nb.py

In the marimo notebook marimo_nb.py I import helpfunctions using from helpfunctions import helpfunctions

If I convert now to html-wasm and then try to use the generated stuff

$ marimo export html-wasm marimo_nb.py -o build_marimo --mode run
$ cd build_marimo
$ python -m http.server

I get an ModuleNotFoundError error

ModuleNotFoundError

    This cell raised an exception: ModuleNotFoundError('No module named 'helpfunctions'')
    See the console area for a traceback.

Is this an error on my side (I mean I can also add the helpfunctions into the marimo notebook but it clutters things up) or should marimo export those functions (according to the documentation "The exported HTML file will run your notebook using WebAssembly, making it completely self-contained and executable in the browser.")

[mscolnick]

hey @q-wertz - we should update our documentation, but it only packages your notebook.py and does not traverse for other files in your directory. this is something we could potentially support in future, but for now you can:

1. include all your files in the notebook.py (or write a small script to do that beforehand)
2. publish your helper functions to a PyPi or a private registry and marimo can install them (this is probably too much friction for a few helper functions, but better for larger libraries)

[q-wertz]

Thanks for the fast reply 😊
Would be awesome if this would be possible in the future.
For the moment I added the functions to the notebook.

Btw: really nice feature 😊