🟡 CLI Command for Comparing baml_client and baml_...
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Nicolay
12/08/2025, 1:58 PMIs there a cli command to determine whether the baml_client and baml_src are different? (CI)
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Vaibhav (BAML 🐑)
12/08/2025, 4:39 PMsadly no check command. just always run
baml-cli generateVaibhav (BAML 🐑)
12/08/2025, 4:40 PMare you finding yourself checking the
baml_clientVaibhav (BAML 🐑)
12/08/2025, 4:40 PMwe usually recommend git ignoring it
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Nicolay
12/08/2025, 5:18 PMSo you are always generating it on demand or what ?
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Vaibhav (BAML 🐑)
12/08/2025, 5:18 PMyep on deploy
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Nicolay
12/08/2025, 5:19 PMHmmm
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Vaibhav (BAML 🐑)
12/08/2025, 5:19 PMits pretty fast (<100ms)
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Nicolay
12/08/2025, 5:19 PMNot sure I like that
Nicolay
12/08/2025, 5:19 PMNot because of the speed, but I don’t like the code generation on demand for logic
Codebase is the in an invalid state with the types
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Vaibhav (BAML 🐑)
12/08/2025, 10:09 PMhttps://docs.boundaryml.com/guide/development/deploying/docker
The main reason we like doing this is similar to TS -> JS, or protobuf.
Generally the final type is too noisy to check in.
that said, we have some ideas on how to make the generated code simpler, and i think once we do that, it will be way safer to check in the code!
Vaibhav (BAML 🐑)
12/08/2025, 10:10 PMits also similar to
npm installbaml-cli generate