@slester are you familiar with macros to some degree?

kinda? 😄

basically a helper function?

No idea if this snippet will work but essentially you'd read your file in Clojure and put it's contents into your cljs file:

(defmacro inline-json [file-path]
  `(js/JSON.parse ~(slurp file-path)))

does that basic idea make sense @slester ?

yep! it's saying slurp is undefined, but I can just (def names (inline-json "names.json")) from there?

@slester do you know that macros for Clojurescript need to be defined in Clojure files?

Maybe this gives some pointer http://blog.fikesfarm.com/posts/2016-01-05-clojurescript-macros-calling-functions.html

I gotta go, much success 👍

like in a cljc file?

thanks