At the core of Bazel there is the workspace. This is the root of the project and where you’l define any dependencies and rules needed to get everything in place to build your project

Once we’ve gotten a good idea on the purpose of bazel its time to look at how it fits into a project. In this article we slowly add each building block needed to make a bazel build project with detailed explanation on every step.

Understanding the purpose of bazel build in the development environment is key to both learning and using it efficiently. In this post I walk through my journey discovering what bazel is and why its so powerful