aspect is a replacement for the bazel CLI that comes with Bazel.

Customize for your organization with plugins

Every organization has a different engineering culture and developer stack.

A plugin allows you to fit aspect into your teams development process

• stamp out new Bazel projects following your local conventions
• error messages point to your internal documentation
• add commands for linting, rebasing, or other common developer workflows
• understand where your developers get stuck and provide help

Plugins are any program that speaks our plugin gRPC protocol. We use the plugin system from HashiCorp.

Read more: Plugins documentation

Interactive

When running in an interactive terminal, aspect-cli helps you out.

It can

• offer to fix problems that block your developers
• suggest better ways to use the tool

Open source and no lock-in

You can rely on aspect-cli to power your developer experience workflows.

It is free and open-source. It is a superset of what Bazel provides, so you can always go back to running bazel commands.

Expert help is a click away

aspect-cli is sponsored by Aspect Development, a Bazel consulting company. If your organization needs more help to make your Bazel migration a success, come find us at aspect.dev

Installation:

Using a package manager

Coming soon

Manual installation

Download a binary from our GitHub Releases page and put it in your PATH.

On MacOS you can bypass the “Unknown Developer” dialog by running xattr -c $(which aspect) before launching aspect.

User Manuals

The commands are documented under aspect.