How to organize a release build (Publish) for a Flask application?

Question

Flask

When developing in Visual Studio, MVC applications, you can do "Publish" and the folder will contain only the files necessary for the application to work, how to do the same for a Flask application?
Actually, you need a little:
1. Exclude some folders (for example, a folder with tests) and some files that are needed only for the Debug mode.
2. Exclusion by mask (eg *.hg)
3. Compress and merge js and css files.
4. Convert .py files to bytecode

PS: PyCharm has an analogue, but it does not satisfy points 3 and 4, but I want not to depend on the IDE

Answer 1

Absolutely standard setuptools / distutils.