pyodide/docs/serving_pyodide_packages.md

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Serving pyodide packages

If you built your pyodide distribution or downloaded the release tarball you need to serve pyodide files with a appropriate headers.

Because browsers require WebAssembly files to have mimetype of application/wasm we're unable to serve our files using Python's built-in SimpleHTTPServer module.

Let's wrap Python's Simple HTTP Server and provide the appropiate mimetype for WebAssembly files into a pyodide_server.py file (in the pyodide_local directory):

import sys
import socketserver
from http.server import SimpleHTTPRequestHandler


class Handler(SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):

    def end_headers(self):
        # Enable Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)
        self.send_header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*')
        super().end_headers()


if sys.version_info < (3, 7, 5):
    # Fix for WASM MIME type for older Python versions
    Handler.extensions_map['.wasm'] = 'application/wasm'


if __name__ == '__main__':
    port = 8000
    with socketserver.TCPServer(("", port), Handler) as httpd:
        print("Serving at: http://127.0.0.1:{}".format(port))
        httpd.serve_forever()

Let's test it out. In your favourite shell, let's start our WebAssembly aware web server:

python pyodide_server.py

Point your WebAssembly aware browser to http://localhost:8000/index.html and open your browser console to see the output from python via pyodide!