bazel-ide

Example project for a Bazel dev environment and IDE support.

Setup

There is a minimal devcontainer available providing a minimal set of dependencies such as git, bazel, direnv, pre-commit, and python (for running Python packages outside of Bazel) as well as a few configuration steps executed when the container is created. This set of minimal dependencies and the few configuration steps should be all you need for a local setup outside of the devcontainer.

All other dependencies are managed by Bazel and bazel_env.bzl. To get started, run the following command:

direnv allow .envrc
bazel run //tools:bazel_env

Now you should see a list of tools available in your PATH.

Updating tools

//tools:bazel_env installs the multitool companion tool which can be used to update the lockfile.

multitool --lockfile multitool.lock.json update

Examples

There are language specific examples for IDE support based on existing rules and tools managed by bazel_env.bzl.

• C++
• Python

Resources

Some useful resources used for this project:

• Developer Tooling in Monorepos with bazel_env - feat. Fabian Meumertzheim
• Device management: tools on your developers PATH
• Bazel Env
• Dev Tools
• Rules Py
• Bazel 102: Python
• Bazel 104: C++