**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>
* Simplified Pydantic handling since Pydantic v1 is not supported
anymore.
* Replace use of deprecated v1 methods by corresponding v2 methods.
* Remove use of other deprecated methods.
* Activate mypy errors on deprecated methods use.
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Co-authored-by: Eugene Yurtsev <eyurtsev@gmail.com>
Most easily reviewed with the "hide whitespace" option toggled.
Seeing 10-50% speed ups in import time for common structures 🚀
The general purpose of this PR is to lazily import structures within
`langchain_core.XXX_module.__init__.py` so that we're not eagerly
importing expensive dependencies (`pydantic`, `requests`, etc).
Analysis of flamegraphs generated with `importtime` motivated these
changes. For example, the one below demonstrates that importing
`HumanMessage` accidentally triggered imports for `importlib.metadata`,
`requests`, etc.
There's still much more to do on this front, and we can start digging
into our own internal code for optimizations now that we're less
concerned about external imports.
<img width="1210" alt="Screenshot 2025-04-11 at 1 10 54 PM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/112a3fe7-24a9-4294-92c1-d5ae64df839e"
/>
I've tracked the improvements with some local benchmarks:
## `pytest-benchmark` results
| Name | Before (s) | After (s) | Delta (s) | % Change |
|-----------------------------|------------|-----------|-----------|----------|
| Document | 2.8683 | 1.2775 | -1.5908 | -55.46% |
| HumanMessage | 2.2358 | 1.1673 | -1.0685 | -47.79% |
| ChatPromptTemplate | 5.5235 | 2.9709 | -2.5526 | -46.22% |
| Runnable | 2.9423 | 1.7793 | -1.163 | -39.53% |
| InMemoryVectorStore | 3.1180 | 1.8417 | -1.2763 | -40.93% |
| RunnableLambda | 2.7385 | 1.8745 | -0.864 | -31.55% |
| tool | 5.1231 | 4.0771 | -1.046 | -20.42% |
| CallbackManager | 4.2263 | 3.4099 | -0.8164 | -19.32% |
| LangChainTracer | 3.8394 | 3.3101 | -0.5293 | -13.79% |
| BaseChatModel | 4.3317 | 3.8806 | -0.4511 | -10.41% |
| PydanticOutputParser | 3.2036 | 3.2995 | 0.0959 | 2.99% |
| InMemoryRateLimiter | 0.5311 | 0.5995 | 0.0684 | 12.88% |
Note the lack of change for `InMemoryRateLimiter` and
`PydanticOutputParser` is just random noise, I'm getting comparable
numbers locally.
## Local CodSpeed results
We're still working on configuring CodSpeed on CI. The local usage
produced similar results.
Looks like `pyupgrade` was already used here but missed some docs and
tests.
This helps to keep our docs looking professional and up to date.
Eventually, we should lint / format our inline docs.
TRY004 ("use TypeError rather than ValueError") existing errors are
marked as ignore to preserve backward compatibility.
LMK if you prefer to fix some of them.
Co-authored-by: Erick Friis <erick@langchain.dev>
