Cider

Here is the outline for my cider tutorial on YouTube, covering basic things you need to know to get started with cider, and starting exploring the fun of clojure programming with the REPL-driven programming approach. Jack In to a REPL C-c M-j (cider-jack-in-clj) start a nREPL and jack in. It works in a project or with a sole .clj file. M-x cider-connect-clj run the command and then fill in hostname and port. [Read More]

Recently I've used babashka/fs a little bit, here are some quick notes for it: Path vs File. Use Path whenever possible, according to this SO answer to "Java: Path vs File". This is actually Java related. It's ok to use a path as a key for a clojure map. At my first try, I somehow came to the conclusion that it's not ok, while I was refactoring the live reload for clay. [Read More]

While refactoring the live reload feature of Clay, I realized I'd better break long functions into smaller and functional ones (as many as I can), which is also a common practice in the clojure community. Small pure functions not only are easy to verify on the development process (using a REPL), but also are easy to test. And unit tests are easy to write in clojure, just use deftest from clojure. [Read More]

While troubleshooting and fixing a live reload bug in Clay today, which requires to start a minimal Clojure environment, I figured out how to start a nREPL from the command line. Instead of using M-x cider-jack-in-clj directly from Emacs, actually we can manully bring up an nREPL with this: clj -Sdeps "{:deps {org.scicloj/clay {:mvn/version \"2-beta21\"} cider/cider-nrepl {:mvn/version \"0.50.2\"}}}" -m nrepl.cmdline --middleware "[cider.nrepl/cider-middleware]" (The clay part is only necessary for this debugging), and then connect to this nREPL using the Emacs command M-x cider-connect-clj. [Read More]