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ClojureScript REPL Workflow

Short write up on using REPL when developing UIs in ClojureScript.

Hot-reload on save or Eval in REPL?

Everyone's standard approach to hot-reloading is to use a tool (Figwheel or shadow-cljs) that reloads changed namespaces automatically. This works really well: you change the code, the tool picks up changed files, compiles namespaces and dependants, notifies REPL client which then pulls in compiled changes, and re-runs a function that re-renders UI.

The other approach is to use ClojureScript's REPL directly and rely only on eval from the editor. This more or less matches Clojure style workflow. This approach might be useful when you don't want tools overhead or hot-reloading becomes slow for you or you just used to this style of interactions. Also changing code doesn't always mean that you want to reload all the changes. On the other hand it is very easy to change a couple of top-level forms and forget to eval one of them.

slightfoot

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cldwalker

Spike

I looked into the state of GraalVM and Clojure and wrote some small work-related scripts.

GraalVM Build Tools

• Downloaded GraalVM and set $GRAALVM_HOME
• Found two main libraries for building GraalVM CLIs - https://github.com/luchiniatwork/cambada#packaging-as-a-native-image and https://github.com/taylorwood/clj.native-image (or https://github.com/taylorwood/lein-native-image for the lein equivalent). I chose clj.native-image as it seemed more focused on doing one thing well.
• First tried its template example which was easy to follow.
• Then added a graalvm build to one of our small cli tools
• Found it to be pretty straightforward except for a stdout flushing issue that was trivial to fix

yogthos

Introductory resources

• High level overview https://yogthos.github.io/ClojureDistilled.html
• An Animated Introduction to Clojure https://markm208.github.io/cljbook/
• Interactive tutorial in a browser https://tryclojure.org/
• Interactive exercises http://clojurescriptkoans.com/
• Clerk notebooks with introductory examples https://github.clerk.garden/anthonygalea/notes-on-clojure
• More interactive exercises https://4clojure.oxal.org/
• Lambda Island tutorials https://lambdaisland.com/
• Functional Programming with Clojure resources https://practicalli.github.io/

stianeikeland

(ns openscad-experiments.helpers
  (:require [scad-clj.model :as m]
            [scad-clj.scad :refer [write-scad]]))

(defn render [object]
  (spit "render.scad" (write-scad object)))

(defn y-split [obj]
  (let [box (m/cube 10 10 10)
        holed-obj (m/difference obj (m/scale [1.005 1.2 1.005] box))

athos

{:paths ["."]
 :deps {clansi/clansi {:mvn/version "1.0.0"}}}