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Bundling-and-deploying-application-code-and-files.md

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+During development, tools like [mpremote](https://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/reference/mpremote.html) are fantastic for quickly running code on a micropython device.
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+Once an application is ready for release however you will often want your code to be bundled into the firmware for easy deployment.
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+The official way to achieve this is called [freezing](https://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/reference/manifest.html).
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+Code freezing however only works with python file, to deploy other kinds of data or assets there are a number of different options (listed in no particular order):
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+* https://github.com/peterhinch/micropython_data_to_py
+* https://insigh.io/blog/how-to-freeze-the-unfreezable/
+* https://github.com/bixb922/freezefs
+* https://github.com/Josverl/vfs_merge
+* https://github.com/glenn20/micropython-esp32-ota
+* https://github.com/glenn20/mp-image-tool-esp32
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+Longer term this is intended to be an official way to deploy any kind of files: https://github.com/micropython/micropython/pull/8191