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Dart rules for Bazel
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Support dev_server rule #49

Open geaden opened 3 years ago

geaden commented 3 years ago

dev_server rule was supported in

https://github.com/dart-archive/rules_dart/blob/78a4e1ba257bbe9a9d7a064c8cde8c5317059e17/examples/web_app/BUILD#L40-L46

Any plans on supporting it here?

cbracken commented 3 years ago

We'd need to give some thought as to how we'd want to support it, but no objections to supporting it here!

One goal with this repo was to remove a lot of the complexity we accumulated in the old rules trying to interoperate with a ton of internal Google legacy infra, so right now things are relatively lightweight.

To get live edit-rebuild behaviour, we'd need the equivalent of the internal iblaze tool, which hadn't been open-sourced at the time, but looks like it's available in the bazel-watcher repo now. There was a fair bit of complexity in the rules dealing with iblaze. The DDC build, on the other hand, is relatively straighforward I think. The old rules have a lot of naughty behaviour around path manipulation, but I suspect it wouldn't be a huge effort to port them.

Thanks for filing the issue!