Sample CLJS project for my own testing purposes. Includes a working setup of kaocha-cljs2. Forked from this template
Please refer to the full Shadow-cljs User Guide for more information.
git clone https://github.com/shadow-cljs/quickstart-browser.git quickstart
cd quickstart
npm install
npx shadow-cljs serverThis runs the shadow-cljs server process which all following commands will talk to. Just leave it running and open a new terminal to continue.
The first startup takes a bit of time since it has to download all the dependencies and do some prep work. Once this is running we can get started.
npx shadow-cljs watch appThis will begin the compilation of the configured :app build and re-compile whenever you change a file.
When you see a "Build completed." message your build is ready to be used.
[:app] Build completed. (23 files, 4 compiled, 0 warnings, 7.41s)You can now then open http://localhost:8020.
To see the live reload in action you can edit the src/main/start/browser.cljs. Some output will be printed in the browser console.
During development it the REPL is very useful.
From the command line use npx shadow-cljs cljs-repl app.
shadow-cljs - config .../shadow-cljs.edn
shadow-cljs - connected to server
cljs.user=>
This can now be used to eval code in the browser (assuming you still have it open). Try (js/alert "Hi.") and take it from there. You might want to use rlwrap npx shadow-cljs cljs-repl app if you intend to type a lot here.
You can exit the REPL by either CTRL+C or typing :repl/quit.
The watch process we started is all about development. It injects the code required for the REPL and the all other devtools but we do not want any of that when putting the code into "production" (ie. making it available publicly).
The release action will remove all development code and run the code through the Closure Compiler to produce a minified main.js file. Since that will overwrite the file created by the watch we first need to stop that.
Use CTRL+C to stop the watch process and instead run npx shadow-cljs release app.
When done you can open http://localhost:8020 and see the release build in action. At this point you would usually copy the public directory to the "production" web server.
Note that in the default config we overwrote the public/js/main.js created by the watch. You can also configure a different path to use for release builds but writing the output to the same file means we do not have to change the index.html and test everything as is.