blt-best-bazel

Some evolving experiments for best practices using bazel to build artifacts from mixed scala/java source code

installing bazel

• see this doc

IDE

If you use atom you may want language highlighting

$ apm install language-bazel

You may also wish to install buildifer for BUILD file formatting.

usage

The files relevant to Bazel are WORKSPACE which defines a context for a Bazel run, and BUILD which is Bazel's declarative form of defining a build in terms of rules

This build it's outfitted with Meetup's blt pipeline interface (Makefile)

At to moment only test is implemented. package and publish are not.

A list of avalable bazel commands can be found here

some additional recommendations to experiment with

• strategy

build --strategy=Scalac=worker ...