Template for Bazel rules

Copy this template to create a Bazel ruleset.

Features:

follows the official style guide at https://docs.bazel.build/versions/main/skylark/deploying.html
allows for both WORKSPACE.bazel and bzlmod (MODULE.bazel) usage
includes Bazel formatting as a pre-commit hook (using buildifier)
includes stardoc API documentation generator
includes typical toolchain setup
CI configured with GitHub Actions
Release using GitHub Actions just by pushing a tag

Ready to get started? Copy this repo, then

search for “com_myorg_rules_mylang” and replace with the name you'll use for your workspace
search for “myorg” and replace with GitHub org
search for “mylang” and replace with the language/tool your rules are for
rename directory “mylang” similarly
run pre-commit install to get lints (see CONTRIBUTING.md)
if you don't need to fetch platform-dependent tools, then remove anything toolchain-related.
update the actions/cache@v2 bazel cache key in .github/workflows/ci.yaml and .github/workflows/release.yml to be a hash of your source files.
(optional) install the Renovate app to get auto-PRs to keep the dependencies up-to-date.
delete this section of the README (everything up to the SNIP).

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Bazel rules for mylang

From the release you wish to use: https://github.com/myorg/rules_mylang/releases copy the WORKSPACE snippet into your WORKSPACE file.

To use a commit rather than a release, you can point at any SHA of the repo.

For example to use commit abc123:

Replace url = "https://github.com/myorg/rules_mylang/releases/download/v0.1.0/rules_mylang-v0.1.0.tar.gz" with a GitHub-provided source archive like url = "https://github.com/myorg/rules_mylang/archive/abc123.tar.gz"
Replace strip_prefix = "rules_mylang-0.1.0" with strip_prefix = "rules_mylang-abc123"
Update the sha256. The easiest way to do this is to comment out the line, then Bazel will print a message with the correct value. Note that GitHub source archives don't have a strong guarantee on the sha256 stability, see https://github.blog/2023-02-21-update-on-the-future-stability-of-source-code-archives-and-hashes/