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Fabric Capacity and Data Engineering Development
Hello nnshr
Yes, you can absolutely follow an approach where developers develop reusable Python code locally and make that code available on Fabric. To do that you use an Environment Fabric item. You can upload custom Python libraries in a Environment item and set that item as a default environment in your Spark settings.
The Spark settings can be found in Workspace Settings > Data Engineering/Science.
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Hi nnshr,
Right now there is no local environment that can be made. I agree that this would be a very helpful feature.
There is an idea submitted for this that I recommend you vote for:
Fabric Desktop: A Local Development Experience for... - Microsoft Fabric Community
Hiya! Agree that a local environment for Fabric itself would be very helpful indeed. I was more suggesting that if we built our functionality in a python package which we can utilize in fabric notebooks, that would in theory drive costs down as development and testing of a python package can be one outside of Fabric.
