I have taken a thorough look at the source and I very much enjoyed it.
The project highlights the utility of Bazel more than I have seen before. How long did it take you (and others) to become as fluent as you are in Bazel and working with it?
Additionally, you (Will) seem to have a very intuitive grasp of build processes in general, notably many of the scripts are fun to dive into and have a very clean design. How did you familiarize yourself so well with those sorts of concepts? Do you have any recommended readings or side-projects you’d recommend tackling to get experience with?
Thanks! I've used Google's internal version of Bazel but it wasn't until this project where I had to spend a lot of effort getting Bazel working in a new project, which is honestly a lot of work and not very straightforward :(
What helped me the most was looking at other projects using Bazel with similar tech stacks and then assembling it together, e.g. :
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I have taken a thorough look at the source and I very much enjoyed it.
The project highlights the utility of Bazel more than I have seen before. How long did it take you (and others) to become as fluent as you are in Bazel and working with it?
Additionally, you (Will) seem to have a very intuitive grasp of build processes in general, notably many of the scripts are fun to dive into and have a very clean design. How did you familiarize yourself so well with those sorts of concepts? Do you have any recommended readings or side-projects you’d recommend tackling to get experience with?
Thanks! I've used Google's internal version of Bazel but it wasn't until this project where I had to spend a lot of effort getting Bazel working in a new project, which is honestly a lot of work and not very straightforward :(
What helped me the most was looking at other projects using Bazel with similar tech stacks and then assembling it together, e.g. :
- https://github.com/angular/components - https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorboard
Alex Eagle of https://www.aspect.build/ has a lot of great resources on using Bazel - both on YouTube and the aspect website.