ClojureScript Development Tools
We have a REPL set up on the back end, but all we have on the front end is recompilation. We can do better. To this end we’ll introduce two tools: shadow-cljs and re-frame-10x.
Shadow-cljs
Several tools other than lein-cljsbuild are available for adding ClojureScript support to a Clojure project. Let’s update our project to use shadow-cljs[53] to compile ClojureScript. Note that you’ll need to have NPM[54] installed before following along with this section. By switching to shadow-cljs, we’ll gain seamless integration with NPM modules and ClojureScript hot loading. Shadow-cljs watches your ClojureScript files and sends compiled changes to the browser through a WebSocket without requiring the browser to refresh. ...
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