**TL;DR much of the provided `Makefile` targets were broken, and any
time I wanted to preview changes locally I either had to refer to a
command Chester gave me or try waiting on a Vercel preview deployment.
With this PR, everything should behave like normal.**
Significant updates to the `Makefile` and documentation files, focusing
on improving usability, adding clear messaging, and fixing/enhancing
documentation workflows.
### Updates to `Makefile`:
#### Enhanced build and cleaning processes:
- Added informative messages (e.g., "📚 Building LangChain
documentation...") to makefile targets like `docs_build`, `docs_clean`,
and `api_docs_build` for better user feedback during execution.
- Introduced a `clean-cache` target to the `docs` `Makefile` to clear
cached dependencies and ensure clean builds.
#### Improved dependency handling:
- Modified `install-py-deps` to create a `.venv/deps_installed` marker,
preventing redundant/duplicate dependency installations and improving
efficiency.
#### Streamlined file generation and infrastructure setup:
- Added caching for the LangServe README download and parallelized
feature table generation
- Added user-friendly completion messages for targets like `copy-infra`
and `render`.
#### Documentation server updates:
- Enhanced the `start` target with messages indicating server start and
URL for local documentation viewing.
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### Documentation Improvements:
#### Content clarity and consistency:
- Standardized section titles for consistency across documentation
files.
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- Refined phrasing and formatting in sections like "Dependency
management" and "Formatting and linting" for better readability.
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#### Enhanced workflows:
- Updated instructions for building and viewing documentation locally,
including tips for specifying server ports and handling API reference
previews.
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- Expanded guidance on cleaning documentation artifacts and using
linting tools effectively.
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#### API reference documentation:
- Improved instructions for generating and formatting in-code
documentation, highlighting best practices for docstring writing.
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### Minor Changes:
- Added support for a new package name (`langchain_v1`) in the API
documentation generation script.
- Fixed minor capitalization and formatting issues in documentation
files.
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Co-authored-by: Copilot <175728472+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
* Adding support for more Chroma client options (`HttpClient` and
`CloundClient`). This includes adding arguments necessary for
instantiating these clients.
* Adding support for Chroma's new persisted collection configuration (we
moved index configuration into this new construct).
* Delegate `Settings` configuration to Chroma's client constructors.
Updates dependencies to Chroma to integrate the major release of Chroma
with improved performance, and to fix issues users have been seeing
using the latest chroma docker image with langchain-chroma
https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/issues/31047#issuecomment-2850790841
Updates chromadb dependency to >=1.0.9
This also removes the dependency of chroma-hnswlib, meaning it can run
against python 3.13 runners for tests as well.
Tested this by pulling the latest Chroma docker image, running
langchain-chroma using client mode
```
httpClient = chromadb.HttpClient(host="localhost", port=8000)
vector_store = Chroma(
client=httpClient,
collection_name="test",
embedding_function=embeddings,
)
```
Thank you for contributing to LangChain!
- [x] **PR title**: "package: description"
- Where "package" is whichever of langchain, community, core, etc. is
being modified. Use "docs: ..." for purely docs changes, "infra: ..."
for CI changes.
- Example: "community: add foobar LLM"
**Description**:
* Starting to put together some PR's to fix the typing around
`langchain-chroma` `filter` and `where_document` query filtering, as
mentioned:
https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/issues/30879https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/issues/30507
The typing of `dict[str, str]` is on the one hand too restrictive (marks
valid filter expressions as ill-typed) and also too permissive (allows
illegal filter expressions). That's not what this PR addresses though.
This PR just removes from the documentation some examples of filters
that are illegal, and also syntactically incorrect: (a) dictionaries
with keys like `$contains` but the key is missing quotation marks; (b)
dictionaries with multiple entries - this is illegal in Chroma filter
syntax and will raise an exception. (`{"foo": "bar", "qux": "baz"}`).
Filter dictionaries in Chroma must have one and one key only. Again this
is just the documentation issue, which is the lowest hanging fruit. I
also think we need to update the types for `filter` and `where_document`
to be (at the very least `dict[str, Any]`), or, since we have access to
Chroma's types, they should be `Where` and `WhereDocument` types. This
has a wider blast radius though, so I'm starting small.
This PR does not fix the issues mentioned above, it's just starting to
get the ball rolling, and cleaning up the documentation.
- [x] **Lint and test**: Run `make format`, `make lint` and `make test`
from the root of the package(s) you've modified. See contribution
guidelines for more: https://python.langchain.com/docs/contributing/
Additional guidelines:
- Make sure optional dependencies are imported within a function.
- Please do not add dependencies to pyproject.toml files (even optional
ones) unless they are required for unit tests.
- Most PRs should not touch more than one package.
- Changes should be backwards compatible.
- If you are adding something to community, do not re-import it in
langchain.
If no one reviews your PR within a few days, please @-mention one of
baskaryan, eyurtsev, ccurme, vbarda, hwchase17.
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Co-authored-by: Really Him <hesereallyhim@proton.me>
Follow up to https://github.com/langchain-ai/langsmith-sdk/pull/1696,
I've bumped the `langsmith` version where applicable in `uv.lock`.
Type checking problems here because deps have been updated in
`pyproject.toml` and `uv lock` hasn't been run - we should enforce that
in the future - goes with the other dependabot todos :).
