[klodolph]

To be honest I had written some custom build systems and spent extensive time working on the problem. So a lot of the Bazel features made me go “aha” because they solved a problem I recognized—but the features seem weird if you don’t recognize the problem you’re solving.

What helps is to understand the separate phases of the Bazel build process and look at other Bazel repositories.

To me it’s not as bad as e.g. the mess I remember going through with TypeScript back when you had to write a lot of your own types for libraries you used.

[gfunk911]

Thanks for the reply.

A bunch of the problems I had might be due to out of date js tools, since apparently Bazel has been breaking compatibility a lot pre 1.0. Things I pull from the docs of the main js/ts bazel libraries are more likely to error than work. Will wait a while for things to catch up now that it's 1.0 and check back in next year or something.

Thanks again.