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We @FirstMarkCap are excited to lead @aspect_build's seed round. We're thrilled to back @Jakeherringbone and @gregmagolan - two n of 1 technologists who know their domain better than anyone - as they transform how software teams operate. shorturl.at/WjIUd

@steeve @aspect_build @aspect_dev @bunjavascript I looked into it yesterday and I think this is pretty easy to add if one of our customers needs it. That's assuming we continue to use pnpm as the package manager and Bun is okay with that node_modules tree at runtime.

@aspect_build @aspect_dev Hoping for @bunjavascript support soon!

Success stories from adopters of rules_js github.com/aspect-build/r…

@dabit3 I was on the Angular team during the fights over whether Angular 2 should be written in Dart or TypeScript. I'm glad we picked right.

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@addyosmani @karaforthewin @Google Does it work with other Google devtools like @bazelbuild ?

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@gramofdata /Users/alexeagle/Projects/rules_js is the path you need if you want it to work on my computer, haha

LLMs are so funny. I'm writing code to load a local copy of rules_js, and Copilot starts generating code as if I were @Jakeherringbone?

We are now an official Bazel Product Partner bazel.build/community/part…

@anton_malinskiy Sure, like if you had an A/B experiment running, but that's just like Git branching - each version of the app would still ship a layer that incrementally updates users from whatever was the "parent" version it's based on.

@Jakeherringbone IMHO because releases are a partial order set, i.e. two concurrent major versions might be present both latest but also both different. If however there is an order for every single release guaranteed by something outside of container release process then it should be possible

Why isn't it typically the case that software released as a docker image always has a single layer added to the digest of the image from the prior release? Same concept as database migrations.

@bradzacher Having lots of BUILD files (aka Bazel packages) is a good practice, and yes they should be largely machine-maintained. It's the connectedness of the dependency graph that requires care.

@Jakeherringbone I had a suspicion that having so many bazel files was harming our perf but I don't know a better automated solution. A manual approach would mean FE engs need to think about build config, but would probably improve build perf. I think we need to perf test the latter approach...

How do people do TS at scale? What tools do people use to check massive monorepos? Bazel? Buck? Nx? Custom tooling?

We were very excited to meet up with everyone at Bazel Community Day in SF. Here is a recording of @Jakeherringbone's talk, Migrating away from rules_docker to rules_oci youtu.be/rLDKcNv7xAY

@bradzacher research.swtch.com/deps is the fantastic answer. Generally less.

@Jakeherringbone "have discipline about" By that do you mean add less or more?

Huge ergonomics fix landed for @bazelbuild .bazelrc files github.com/bazelbuild/baz…

@bradzacher Most important is to have a directed acyclic dependency graph. Enforce no cycles, and have discipline about layering and adding new dependency edges.

@Jakeherringbone What's the best way to structure a big (>40k file) monolithic codebase so that we can take advantage of caching and parallelism for things like typechecking?

Visualise and explore #bazel build graphs... in your web browser! New tool from the Scalable Builds team at Tweag. tweag.io/blog/2023-05-0…

@radokirov Are those two things isometric?

Also in my feed quantamagazine.org/long-sought-ma…

As an ex-mathematician working in front end, this announcement made my head hurt for a few quick seconds.

I used to proctor the TypeScript-in-Google3 training class, and built this training course largely on Google's model for wide adoption. It's a mix of lecture and hands-on codelab, and it's all Bazel 6 with bzlmod. Come listen to me for hours on end :)

@durin42 I updated genrule docs to advise run_binary instead, which has better constraints to prevent criminal behavior 😉

I have decided that the collective noun for bazel genrules is "crimescene."

@Steve8708 @QwikDev No @bazelbuild example

What is stopping you from using @QwikDev? If something else - plz reply

Big thanks to the Google Open Source Program Office for funding the 🌿@bazelbuild rules (plugins) community through the SIG!! opencollective.com/bazel-rules-au…