Using a custom Pyodide distribution

Beneath custom wheels are the raw JS and WebAssembly parts of pyolite provided by pyodide. As the full distribution is very large, and self-hosting of all its assets brings their own challenges, this use of CDN is the default for JupyterLite.

A custom pyodide.js, along with its packages.json and the rest of its assets, such as might be downloaded via the --pyodide CLI option, can also be configured. This can be either relative to the lite_dir, or as a full URL.

{
  "jupyter-lite-schema-version": 0,
  "jupyter-config-data": {
    "litePluginSettings": {
      "@jupyterlite/pyolite-kernel-extension:kernel": {
        "pyodideUrl": "./path/to/custom/pyodide/pyodide.js"
      }
    }
  }
}

Hint

The performance of extracting a pyodide .tar.bz2 can be improved by installing libarchive-c: see the extensions page.