I'm having a hard time with boot's read-only permissions, is there a way to tell sift or another way to change target to read-write?

basically I want to include the target files in a npm/broccoli build and it throws up

actually updating to v2.6.0 fixed my problem 🙂

how can i do a dev task for yada?

im so confused with boot and lein and how to start a webserver actually

i cannot even run the aleph example with boot..

so in the repl, i can run the start-server from aleph, and it starts the server. how do i do that in a boot task?

@pvinis you can make a boot task like this:

(deftask aleph
  []
  (let [start (delay (aleph/start-the-server))]
    (with-pass-thru fs @start)))

aha thanks. so complicated

@pvinis or you can use https://github.com/danielsz/system/blob/master/src/system/components/aleph.clj

@pvinis you can just use the repl if that's easier for you

it doesn't necessarily have to be a task

the only advantage of a task is that you can compose it with other tasks

This is maybe more of a ring problem than a boot problem but I'm using boot-http and everyone's asleep in the ring channel---

How come this doesn't work to server the static page in my SPA?

https://github.com/mathpunk/anansi/blob/server/src/clj/anansi/server.clj

(Important note: I barely know what 'static resources' means)

(All I know is, I used to be able to see a reagent page I was making and now localhost:3000/ is a Not Found)

@thomas boot-http uses its own (ring) server and serves from the classpath the files. So it needs some sort of configuration in order to extract your static assets and serve them

@richiardiandrea I told boot about my handler https://github.com/mathpunk/anansi/blob/server/build.boot#L39

What else needs configuring?

@thomas ok I did not see the code sorry

@thomas maybe because of this? https://github.com/weavejester/compojure/blob/master/src/compojure/route.clj#L42

I think, more specifically, the issue is that the default for that compojure helper is to expect things to be inside of a public folder. But looking at your resources directory, everything is in the root. So, @mathpunk you can either move all the folders in your resources directory into resources/public or you can set the option on route/resources like so:

(route/resources "/" {:root "."})

I'm not 100% sure that second suggestion will work. And I'd recommend moving your website files into resources/public anyway since it's a common convention

hmmm. appears I'm totally wrong. Also, the code that's on github works just fine for me. I can load your reagent app on localhost:3000 after running boot dev @mathpunk

are you on the server branch or the master branch, @geoffs?

master

yeah these changes aren't in master yet

i'm looking for the behavior in master for /, and new behavior from other routes

i did try moving things into public, but no luck yet

ah. I see. 🙂

So, I got rid of your other routes besides (route/resources "/") and the server started showing something different:

Problem accessing /index.html. Reason:

    java.io.FileNotFoundException: Could not locate garden/def__init.class or garden/def.clj on classpath., compiling:(anansi/styles.clj:1:1)

So it looks like there's an issue with your garden styles.clj that's borking things

@geoffs There's an :output-to in build.boot.... maybe that's gotta be "public/css" to match?

having only been web-devving for 6 months it's hard to know what older conventions these things are emulating...

there's also the :resource-paths

but if it's set to 'resources' i'd imagine that it sees public inside resources as well

yes. that's correct

Yeah, I think setting :output-to to be public/css/garden.css is part of it

I got it working by also adding an explicit dependency on garden like so:

;; prod
                 [ring/ring-core "1.5.0"]
                 [compojure "1.5.1"]
                 [com.cognitect/transit-cljs "0.8.239"]
                 [reagent-material-ui "0.2.1"]
                 [datascript "0.15.4"]
                 [garden "1.3.2"]            ;; <=========== add this
                 ])

and then going to localhost:3000/index.html

Here's a new question, which I think is more boot-related or at least classpath-related: now I want to use transit on the server, so I add [com.cognitect/transit-clj...] to the build.boot dependencies. But, if I require it with (:require [cognitect.transit :as transit]), I get no such var

I imagine this is because it's ambiguous which cognitect.transit I'm referring to?

and yet it seems like you just chuck all the deps, cljs and clj, into the same spot in the build.boot

@mathpunk when you do (require '[foo.bar :as bar]) it will not create a var named bar, is that what you mean?

@micha hm, well i'm in a file rather than the repl but when I run my boot dev I get,

oops, that's from me guessing it was transit-clj instead of transit

right, namespaces are not themselves vars

but, i got an equivalent error, I do believe

namespaces contain vars

so in the repl you should be able to do like cognitect.transit/write

if you just do cognitect.transit you will get a "no such var" exception, because the namespace isn't a var

i don't really understand what vars are, but i think you're saying that i can't include this dependency in my source file like i require other dependencies

because of the naming collision?

no, i don't think it's a dependency issue

it looks like an issue with what youre trying to do with clojure

to clarify:

(ns foop
  (:require [cognitect.transit :as tarnsit]))

(def x cognitect.transit)

that will throw an exception

in clojure

vars are named variables, in clojure

namespaces are groups of vars

that snippet above creates the foop namespace

which would contain an x var

but

i'm not doing anything differently than i'm doing in the namespace where this works

They look equivalent except that one's a cljs file and the other's a clj file.

to me, anyway

is that really the full contents of the anansi/data.clj file?

No, here it is in context: https://github.com/mathpunk/anansi/blob/server/src/clj/anansi/data.clj

can you paste the build.boot file please?

there is some place where you're using cognitect.transit-clj as a var when it should be quoted

maybe in your :dependencies in the build.boot

https://github.com/mathpunk/anansi/blob/server/build.boot

lines 20 and 21

hm yeah that all looks fine to me

maybe do find . |xargs grep -s "cognitect\.transit-clj"

something somewhere must be trying to use cognitect.transit-clj as a variable