# Install ibazel with Homebrew, scoop

Tools for building Bazel targets when source files change. Version 0.32.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-26. Also installable with scoop: scoop install extras/ibazel.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:ibazel
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install ibazel
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Windows

- Scoop (92%):

```sh
scoop install extras/ibazel
```

  Evidence: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/ibazel.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Extras/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:ibazel
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.32.0
- **Source summary:** Tools for building Bazel targets when source files change
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel-watcher>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel-watcher>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-26T04:07:47+02:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- ibazel (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.32.0
## Project history and usage

ibazel is the executable from Bazel watcher, a source-file watcher for Bazel projects that reruns `build`, `test`, or `run` targets after source changes.

### Project history

The Bazel watcher README frames the tool around a familiar edit-save-rerun loop: save a file, have tests rebuild, or restart a server after source changes. The repository states that it is not an official Google product, while it lives under the `bazelbuild` GitHub organization and uses Bazel itself for builds.

### Adoption history

ibazel became a common companion tool in Bazel-heavy developer workflows because it supplies the watch mode that many language-specific toolchains provide by default. Its README documents Homebrew, npm, Arch Linux AUR, and source-build installation paths, and Homebrew analytics show materially higher use than most packages in this batch.

### How it is used

Developers run commands such as `ibazel build //path/to:target`, `ibazel test`, or `ibazel run` during active development. The output runner feature reads `%WORKSPACE%/.bazel_fix_commands.json` and can prompt for generated repair commands such as Buildozer or Gazelle invocations.

### Why package nerds care

ibazel is package-nerd candy because it sits at the boundary of build systems, file watching, editor feedback, live reload, npm distribution, Homebrew bottles, and Bazel's own repository culture. It is small enough to be a CLI utility, but important enough to show how a build ecosystem fills ergonomic gaps around a deliberately explicit core build tool.

### Timeline

- v0.0.1: The repository contains an early public release tag.
- 2017: The README's profiler example records iBazel and Bazel version data around a development-server reload workflow.
- v0.15.x-v0.29.x: The tag history shows a long 0.x release series across the Bazel watcher repository.
- 2026: The GitHub releases page lists v0.29.0 as an April 2026 release.

### Related projects

- The README connects ibazel directly to Bazel and mentions generated repair workflows involving Buildozer and Gazelle. Its npm package path, `@bazel/ibazel`, also ties it into JavaScript projects using Bazel.

### Sources

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/ibazel>
- <https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel-watcher>
- <https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel-watcher/releases>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: %WORKSPACE%/.bazel_fix_commands.json
- Windows: %WORKSPACE%/.bazel_fix_commands.json
## Other Package-Manager Records

- Scoop - extras/ibazel: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/ibazel.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Extras/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/ibazel.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/ibazel.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph