Hey does anyone know where I can find a tutorial which runs through creating my own library and installing it locally. Want to use a branch of a library.

https://github.com/magomimmo/modern-cljs/blob/master/doc/first-edition/tutorial-19.md

https://github.com/magomimmo/modern-cljs/blob/master/doc/first-edition/tutorial-19.md

This seems like the best thing I can find online.

@grounded_sage yes, you can just use lein install as described in the tutorial. You can also look at checkout dependencies in case you want a quicker turnaround during the development: https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/blob/master/doc/TUTORIAL.md#checkout-dependencies

I'm not sure what the checkout dependencies provides at a glance. Probably not suited to me anyways as I am a 100% boot user. The branch I am using is a major version bump of a library which I will be using for every project so just looking to do a local build and install.

checkout deps allow conveniently reloading a library's namespaces as you edit them without having to reinstall and restart the repl

is there a way to format nil so it shows as a blank string or a space? For example if the author is still alive I want (format "%s (%d - %d)" name birth death) to show an empty space after -

You could use (or death "")

Although I don't know if that works with %d

um how do you document the meaning of a variable on a let form?

unlike fn there's no room for a docstring, I think

thanks, I will try

@matan just a source code doc? or something stays with the function?

obviously ; but #_ "comment here" works too

if what you're trying to do is trace values, you might be interested in: https://github.com/dgrnbrg/spyscope