How to generate code with Bazel

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genrule + cat genrule + Go binary Add a generator dependency Golang uses code generation heavily. Here-and-there developers generate gRPC stubs, parts of source code, documentation, commit messages, etc. Go even has a special //go:generate directive. Bazel moves code generation to the next level. In this post, I’ll show you how to produce and build Go code with Bazel and with generators…

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