uv: your development environment manager

Let’s cover our last topic in this appendix, namely, uv. It’s not something you must use, but you’re highly recommended to do so. Here’s why:

• It provides a consistent interface for managing your development environment. It means you can easily switch between different projects and their dependencies without worrying about conflicts.
• It streamlines the process of setting up and managing virtual environments, making it easier to work on multiple projects with different requirements. So, instead of typing python -m venv env and source env/bin/activate, you can simply use uv init to create and activate a virtual environment, which also initiates your project.
• It simplifies the process of installing and managing dependencies, allowing you to easily add, remove, and update packages as needed. You’re used to typing pip install <package> to install a package, but with uv, you can use uv...