Panel: Charles Max WoodJoe EamesAlyssa NicollJohn PapaWard Bell Special Guests: Alex EagleIn this episode of Adventures in Angular, the panel discusses Angular’s BuildTools with Alex Eagle. Alex has been working on the Angular core team at Google for the past three years and works on developer tooling there. He discusses the advantages of using a new build system, Bazel, and how using this system could improve your coding across the board. They also compare Bazel to other Angular tools and talk about when you would want to integrate Bazel into your tool belt.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Angular plumbing
Google Monorepo
Bazel software
Micro-services
Not all tools need to be written JavaScript
Pros of Bazel build system
Compilation in Angular CLI
Two second rule
How do you know when Bazel is good for you?
Production mode vs development mode
Feeling nervous about using Bazel
Want your CI to have cashing
What does Bazel look like today?
What will Bazel look like when your done with it?
Take rules and compose them however you want
Bazel syntax is like Python
Rules
Bazel Ecosystem vs Angular Ecosystem
Tools in your Toolchain
And much, much more!

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Joe

Alyssa

The Impossible Project

Ward

Fly Like an Eagle by Steve Miller Band

Alex

Pocket Operators

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AiA 177: Angular's BuildTools Convergence with Alex Eagle