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# Building Angular with Bazel
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Note: this doc is for developing Angular, it is _not_ public
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documentation for building an Angular application with Bazel.
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The Bazel build tool (http://bazel.build) provides fast, reliable
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incremental builds. We plan to migrate Angular's build scripts to
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Bazel.
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## Installation
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Install Bazel from the distribution, see [install] instructions.
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On Mac, just `brew install bazel`.
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Bazel will install a hermetic version of Node, npm, and Yarn when
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you run the first build.
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[install]: https://bazel.build/versions/master/docs/install.html
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## Configuration
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The `WORKSPACE` file indicates that our root directory is a
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Bazel project. It contains the version of the Bazel rules we
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use to execute build steps, from `build_bazel_rules_typescript`.
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The sources on [GitHub] are published from Google's internal
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repository (google3).
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That repository defines dependencies on specific versions of
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all the tools. You can run the tools Bazel installed, for
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example rather than `yarn install` (which depends on whatever
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version you have installed on your machine), you can
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`bazel run @yarn//:yarn`.
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Bazel accepts a lot of options. We check in some options in the
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`.bazelrc` file. See the [bazelrc doc]. For example, if you don't
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want Bazel to create several symlinks in your project directory
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(`bazel-*`) you can add the line `build --symlink_prefix=/` to your
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`.bazelrc` file.
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[GitHub]: https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_typescript
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[bazelrc doc]: https://bazel.build/versions/master/docs/bazel-user-manual.html#bazelrc
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## Building Angular
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- Build a package: `bazel build packages/core`
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- Build all packages: `bazel build packages/...`
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You can use [ibazel] to get a "watch mode" that continuously
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keeps the outputs up-to-date as you save sources. Note this is
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new as of May 2017 and not very stable yet.
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[ibazel]: https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel-watcher
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