Initialize a Snowpark project¶

The first step when creating Snowpark projects is to create a project boilerplate. The snow init command creates a fully-functional boilerplate with the following structure:

snowflake.yml      - project definition
requirements.txt   - project dependencies
app/               - code of functions and procedures
  __init__.py
  functions.py     - example functions
  procedures.py    - example procedures
  common.py        - example "shared library"

• The snowflake.yml file contains a project definition that describes the project structure that the snow snowpark commands use.

• The app directory stores the project code. You can think about it as a Python module. All functions and procedures must reside in this directory.

• The requirements.txt file contains project dependencies. Snowflake CLI supports all requirement specifiers supported by pip, such as a package name, a URL for a package, or a local path.

  You can add more dependencies (such as previously deployed custom packages) as imports parameters in the function and procedure declarations in the project definition.