Features: Import BUILD files into the IDE. First things first: use the Bazelisk project (courtesy of philwo), a pure golang implementation of Bazel. 1 Some additional libraries must also be installed for Bazel to work. Install bazel Install conda (I wanted a Python environment that will not mess with system Python. Install bazel mac To verify that building indeed works, I show how to change some Tensorflow Python code, do an incremental build and observe the change in action via a simple test program.