Question: is it possible to generate BUILD files for a Yarn workspaces project?

[ThijsBroersen]

I like using Bazel but I find it a pain that I have to maintain a duplicate list of the same dependencies:

• one in package.json
• one in BUILD.bazel

Is there a more ergonomic way of working? Can Bazel read dependencies (and perhaps also other data sources) directly from the package.json and tsconfig files?

[alexeagle]

The typical way for bazel BUILD files to reflect contents of other files in the repo is with a bazel-gazelle extension. https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel-gazelle#supported-languages

However that's quite a bit of work for something simple like keeping two lists in sync. Maybe you can just write a small script to compare/correct them and run that as part of your CI?

Note, there's pnpm workspaces support in https://github.com/aspect-build/rules_js/ and I'm planning to write a gazelle extension to keep package.json files in-sync with the js_package rules used by that ruleset.

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