Pyodide allows you to run Python code within the browser via WebAssembly (wasm). It's a great option if, like me, you're someone who wants to escape some of the limitations of working with JavaScript. Getting things up and running involves a few steps, described in the [Pyodide docs](https://pyodide.org/en/stable/usage/quickstart.html): 1. Include Pyodide. 2. Set up the Python environment (load the Pyodide wasm module and initialize it). 3. Run your Python code. Cool, but it'd be nice to handle all of this in a reusable React component. How can we make it work? Let's take it step by step. ## Step 1: Include Pyodide The first task is easy enough: add a `script` tag to the document `head` with the Pyodide CDN url as the `src` attribute. Better yet, if you're using a framework like Gatsby or Next.js (I used the latter for this example), wrap your `script` inside a [built-in](https://nextjs.org/docs/api-reference/next/head) `Head` component that will append tags to the `head` of the page for you ([react-helmet](https://github.com/nfl/react-helmet) is another great option). That way you won't have to worry about accidentally forgetting to include Pyodide in your project, since it's already part of your component. Let's call our component `Pyodide`. Here's what we have so far: ```jsx import Head from 'next/head' export default function Pyodide() { return (

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Python in React with Pyodide

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