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Practical Bazel: Downloading Private Release Assets from GitHub

Published: 2023-05-23

Downloading a private release asset from GitHub given only its name and tag requires a complicated series of interactions with the GitHub API. This blog post explains how to write two repository rules which make dealing with private release assets in Bazel easy.

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Published: 2022-11-18

Practical Bazel: Start with Official Rules Template

A quick tip for today:

When creating a new ruleset, particularly on GitHub, start with the official Bazel rules template. It includes a number of features out of the box that are rather tiresome to implement yourself.

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Published: 2022-11-09

Practical Bazel: Using Rulesets from Non-Public GitHub Repositories

At work, we have a number of custom-written Bazel rulesets stored in organization repositories on GitHub¹. This post explains how we use these non-public rulesets in our Bazel projects.