When I was looking for a build tool for a (fairly simple) monorepo, I noticed that although there are many great ones, they all require considerable setup or they only work with one particular language. I was rather looking for a basic build tool that needs almost no setup and can handle a handful services in one repository with some frontend, some backend and maybe a bit of machine learning code.
My goals for this project are
To do this, abuild acts as a glue between existing language specific tools—in that
sense calling it a "build tool" might almost be promising too much. It's rather a build tool
manager for monorepos.
You can install abuild from pypi with pip install abuild.
This example looks at a very simple monorepo with a python backend that gets build into a docker container and a javascript frontend that gets build with npm run build. There is also a tools directory that shouldn't be build:
$ tree
.
|-- backend
| |-- Dockerfile
| -- tox.ini |-- frontend | -- package.json
`-- tools
3 directories, 3 files
To set up abuild in a new monorepo, you can run
$ abuild parse > abuild.yaml $ cat abuild.yaml components:
As you can see, abuild understood the basics of the repository and created the skeleton of a config file. Feel free to update the config file by hand. For example, you could add names for the steps by setting components.[].steps.[].name. You could also delete (or add) steps to fit your needs.
To build your services with abuild, you simply run abuild build in your project root. abuild maintains a state file .abuild_state.json that tracks your build status. Currently, the state is not synchronized between machines (which can be a bit of a hindrance of CI). However, you can commit the .abuild_state.json to your revision control system.
FAQs
A simple, language agnostic build tool
We found that abuild demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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