Attaching to a swank-js node.js server using SLIME and Emacs

swank-js-init.el

;; Improved Javascript support
(add-to-list 'load-path (concat my-emacs-path "/elisp/js2-mode"))
(autoload 'js2-mode "js2-mode" nil t)
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.js$" . js2-mode))

;; Node REPL using SLIME
(add-to-list 'load-path (concat my-emacs-path "/elisp/slime"))
(add-to-list 'load-path (concat my-emacs-path "/elisp/slime/contrib"))
(require 'slime)
(autoload 'slime-js-minor-mode "slime-js" nil t)
(add-hook 'js2-mode-hook
          (lambda ()
            (slime-js-minor-mode 1)))
(slime-setup '(slime-repl slime-js))
(setq slime-auto-connect 'always)
(setq slime-kill-without-query-p t)
(setq slime-protocol-version 'ignore)

(defun slime ()
  (interactive)
  (let ((process (slime-connect "localhost" 4005)))
    (setf (slime-connection-name process) "NODE")))