feat: first stab at rewriting Circle CI config file

-   Modify `pyproject.toml` to have a separate `dev_build` section
    with packages needed for building the plotly package.
-   Replace uses of `uv pip` with `uv sync` in `.circleci/config.yml`.

Author: gvwilson

.circleci/config.yml

@@ -25,8 +25,7 @@ commands:
             curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
             uv venv
             source .venv/bin/activate
-            uv pip install .
-            uv pip install -r ./test_requirements/requirements_core.txt
+            uv sync --extra dev_core
       - run:
           name: List installed packages and python version
           command: |
@@ -56,8 +55,7 @@ commands:
             curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
             uv venv
             source .venv/bin/activate
-            uv pip install .
-            uv pip install -r ./test_requirements/requirements_optional.txt
+            uv sync --extra dev_optional
 
       - when:
           condition:
@@ -70,8 +68,7 @@ commands:
                 name: Install pandas
                 command: |
                   source .venv/bin/activate
-                  uv pip install pip
-                  python -m pip install pandas==<<parameters.pandas_version>> numpy==<<parameters.numpy_version>>
+                  uv pip install pandas==<<parameters.pandas_version>> numpy==<<parameters.numpy_version>>
 
       - run:
           name: Test core
@@ -125,8 +122,7 @@ commands:
             curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
             uv venv
             source .venv/bin/activate
-            uv pip install .
-            uv pip install -r ./test_requirements/requirements_optional.txt
+            uv pip install .[dev_optional]
             # Install Kaleido v0 instead of the v1 specified in requirements_optional.txt
             uv pip uninstall kaleido
             uv pip install kaleido==0.2.1
@@ -151,16 +147,16 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - checkout
       - run:
-          name: Install black
+          name: Install ruff
           command: |
-            python -m venv venv
-            . venv/bin/activate
-            pip install black==25.1.0
+            uv venv
+            source .venv/bin/activate
+            uv sync --extra dev_core
       - run:
           name: Check formatting with black
           command: |
-            . venv/bin/activate
-            black --check . --exclude venv
+            source .venv/bin/activate
+            ruff check .
 
   test_core_py:
     parameters:
@@ -226,22 +222,20 @@ jobs:
             curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
             uv venv
             source .venv/bin/activate
-            uv pip install -e .
-            uv pip install -r test_requirements/requirements_optional.txt
+            uv sync --extra dev_optional
 
       - run:
-          name: Build html figures (Pandas 2)
+          name: Build HTML figures (Pandas 2)
           command: |
             source .venv/bin/activate
             python tests/percy/plotly-express.py
       - run:
-          name: Build html figures (Pandas 1) and compare
+          name: Build HTML figures (Pandas 1) and compare
           command: |
             source .venv/bin/activate
             mkdir tests/percy/pandas2
             mv tests/percy/*.html tests/percy/pandas2/
-            uv pip install pip
-            python -m pip install pandas==1.5.3 numpy==1.26.4
+            uv pip install pandas==1.5.3 numpy==1.26.4
             python tests/percy/plotly-express.py
             python tests/percy/compare-pandas.py
             rm -rf tests/percy/pandas2
@@ -273,8 +267,7 @@ jobs:
             curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
             uv venv
             source .venv/bin/activate
-            uv pip install -e .
-            uv pip install -r ./test_requirements/requirements_core.txt black inflect jupyterlab
+            uv sync --extra dev_optional
       - run:
           name: Update plotly.js to dev
           command: |
@@ -291,7 +284,7 @@ jobs:
           name: Build source distribution packages
           command: |
             source .venv/bin/activate
-            uv pip install build
+            uv sync --extra dev_build
             python -m build --sdist --wheel -o dist
           when: always
       - store_artifacts:
@@ -312,8 +305,7 @@ jobs:
             curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
             uv venv
             source .venv/bin/activate
-            uv pip install build
-            uv pip install jupyter
+            uv sync --extra dev_build
             cd js
             npm ci
             npm run build
@@ -352,7 +344,7 @@ jobs:
             curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
             uv venv
             source .venv/bin/activate
-            uv pip install -r requirements.txt
+            uv sync
             cd ..
             if [ "${CIRCLE_BRANCH}" != "doc-prod" ]; then
               uv pip uninstall plotly

pyproject.toml

@@ -49,23 +49,22 @@ express = ["numpy"]
 kaleido = ["kaleido==1.0.0rc15"]
 dev_core = [
     "pytest",
-    "requests"
+    "requests",
+    # pin precise version of ruff to prevent accidental reformatting in case its defaults are updated
+    "ruff==0.11.12"
 ]
-dev_optional = [
-    # all core dependencies
+dev_build = [
     "plotly[dev_core]",
-
-    # pin precise version of ruff to prevent accidental reformatting in case its defaults are updated
-    "ruff==0.11.12",
-
-    # other dependencies required to test and build
-    "anywidget",
     "build",
+    "jupyter"
+]
+dev_optional = [
+    "plotly[dev_build]",
+    "plotly[kaleido]",
+    "anywidget",
     "colorcet",
     "geopandas",
     "inflect",
-    "jupyter",
-    "plotly[kaleido]",
     "numpy",
     "orjson",
     "pandas",