Clojurians Log v2

I don’t know much about Reloaded, but I think that the commands mentioned in that articles correspond to Calva’s Calva: Refresh Changed Namespaces, and Calva: Refresh All Namespaces. There is no immediate support for specifying before and after functions, but could be achieved using keybindings and the VS Code runCommands command.

Keybindings can not be saved with the workspace in VS Code, so it is not super convenient to share. We could consider adding the before and after support into Calva instead.

> You can define Clojure functions to be called before reloading, and after a successful reload, when using cider-ns-refresh: these functions are configured in elisp so may not automatically be implemented on the calva side. the basic refresh stuff is in the middleware so presumably orchard powers both in calva and cider

In VS Code we would configure them as settings in JSON, as well as letting the commands take arguments that can be provided by keybindings or Joyride or similar.

I guess it depends a bit on what’s the background to your question, @weavejester. If it is for your own use, then I can show you how to configure keybindings for it. It is more general, how to advice others, then I think we should consider making a few changes to Calva. There is also the clj-reload library that I have been intending to check out more closely.

Apologies for not including the context. I'm writing a system that uses a custom CIDER/nREPL start script, and has some functions for starting and stopping services. I'd like to ensure that when a user opens a project using this system in Calva, they have keybindings to jack-in and reload the system (e.g. stop, refresh namespaces, start). Emacs has a .dirlocals.el file that you can use to add project-specific configuration. In this case I'd use it to give CIDER the jack-in script and the refresh functions. This means that a user can open the project and use the standard ways of connecting and refreshing without knowing the details. I'm not familiar with VS Code or Calva, but I was exploring a way of doing the same. To provide some project-specific configuration that would allow Calva users to connect/reload with a keypress.

That’s what I mean by that we’ll need to configure those before and after functions. I can fix that. It is time.

Latest Calva now supports configuring the refresh commands with the functions. https://clojurians.slack.com/archives/CBE668G4R/p1749497810183999 Calva Jack-in is pretty configurable, @weavejester, https://calva.io/customizing-jack-in-and-connect/ let me know if you want help with configuring the project for Calva users.

Many thanks!