karlhepler / create-react-app-ejected-bazel

This is a test project to try to figure out how to get an ejected create-react-app project building with Bazel.

create-react-app-ejected-bazel

The purpose of this repo is to demonstrate an issue I'm having with Bazel and an ejected create-react-app project.

Baseline Context

When a create-react-app project is ejected, config/ and scripts/ directories are created and filled with files. You will notice that the build script in package.json looks like this: node scripts/build.js. If you run yarn build, then you will see that a build/ directory is created in the source root and that it is filled with output files.

Integrating Bazel

1. I added WORKSPACE and BUILD.bazel files and set everything up to build correctly with Bazel.

2. If you run git checkout 5517901ab51bf4110aa1c50049b358fd6957048e && yarn bazelisk clean && yarn bazelisk run //:build, you will notice that the scripts/build.js is executed by Bazel. However, instead of outputting a build/ directory in the source root, it outputs a build/ directory here: bazel-bin/build.sh.runfiles/create-react-app-ejected-bazel/build.

3. If you run git checkout 217ff3953df9ee09929717ef0ee8e30713671c37 && yarn bazelisk clean && yarn bazelisk build //:bundle, you will notice that everything builds correctly and outputs to bazel-bin/bundle/ as expected.

Problem

If you run git checkout c6a4e62053d3d4fd3c294752e3a19d2be7556484 && yarn bazelisk clean && yarn bazelisk build //project:bundle, you will notice that it doesn't build. I can't figure it out. I've tried to get this working for days.

I expect it to output bazel-bin/project/bundle/ full of output files.

create-react-app-ejected-bazel's Issues

Add fix

Any chance you could update this repo with the fix?