bazel-skylib VS rules_nodejs

Compare bazel-skylib vs rules_nodejs and see what are their differences.

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bazel-skylib

Posts with mentions or reviews of bazel-skylib. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-21.

rules_nodejs

Posts with mentions or reviews of rules_nodejs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-25.
  • Bazel jasmine_test issue
    1 project | /r/bazel | 24 Jul 2023
  • Vercel announces Turbopack, the successor to Webpack
    21 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Oct 2022
    Bazel is just the infrastructure to run webpack. You'd need to do some work to make webpack's state be cacheable (I dunno what options and such it has for this, maybe it's already there as an option). But if you're looking at Bazel for JS work you probably just want to use the existing and maintained rules for it: https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_nodejs It's been a while since I last looked at it but I don't think it has any caching for webpack.
  • Turborepo 1.2: High-performance build system for monorepos
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Apr 2022
    > Is Bazel designed in a way that make it impossible to do JS monorepos well?

    Not impossible, but you really need to go all in with it and follow its conventions and practices. See this for the main docs: https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_nodejs

    One thing in particular that doesn't work well in the bazel world is doing your own stuff outside its BUILD.bazel files. If you're used to just npm install and jam some code in your package.json scripts... that doesn't usually work in the bazel world. If you have a lot of logic or tools in your build you'll likely need to go all in and make bazel starlark rules or macros that recreate that logic. Nothing is impossible, but expect to spend time getting up to speed and getting things working the bazel way.

  • Advice on build scripts and tooling
    2 projects | /r/typescript | 21 Jan 2022
    I am using Bazel with rules_nodejs and Webpack. There's an example here.
  • Help me figure out writing a webapp in Go and JavaScript, with Bazel
    3 projects | /r/bazel | 14 May 2021
    It is probably possible to build Angular with ts_project(), however you'd need to manually manage the compiler (Angular has its own) and tsconfig (Angular needs special options). ts_library() does a lot of this for you, so I think it would probably be easier to use that than to force yourself onto ts_project(). The canonical Angular example uses ts_library() FWIW: https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_nodejs/tree/master/examples/angular
  • Developing in a Monorepo While Still Using Webpack
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Dec 2020
    https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_nodejs
  • On Bazel Support
    1 project | dev.to | 2 Nov 2020
    Nx is widely used in the Angular community. The Angular team at Google had plans to add Bazel support to the Angular CLI for many years, but the plans didn't materialize. The key folks (e.g., Alex Eagle) working on the effort left Google. Google employees no longer maintain rules_nodejs.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing bazel-skylib and rules_nodejs you can also consider the following projects:

rules_nixpkgs - Rules for importing Nixpkgs packages into Bazel.

jazelle - Incremental, cacheable builds for large Javascript monorepos using Bazel

bazel-coverage-report-renderer - Haskell rules for Bazel.

rules_docker - Rules for building and handling Docker images with Bazel

dbx_build_tools - Dropbox's Bazel rules and tools

rules_graalvm - Build GraalVM native binaries with Bazel

bazel-linting-system - πŸŒΏπŸ’š Experimental system for registering, configuring, and invoking source-code linters in Bazel.

sml_rules - Bazel SML rules provide the necessary rules to build and test SML (Standard ML) applications using Bazel.

rules_rust - Rust rules for Bazel

eidos-audition - Collection of auditory models.

bazel-typescript-showcase