If you're doing something new it's pretty straightforward to start with bazel and do everything from the start 'the bazel way'. If you're pulling in an existin

If you're doing something new it's pretty straightforward to start with bazel and do everything from the start 'the bazel way'. If you're pulling in an existing codebase and a lot of dependencies along with it, you could be spending a lot of time to make it work 'the bazel way'. There's a very narrow path that bazel forces you to be on--this is what makes it work so well but make it difficult to stray off that path.