Hi all, can anyone explain to me how cider automatically connects to the nrepl server started by cider-nrepl/init? 😄

@levitanong starting the server produces a text message that CIDER parses to know that the server is already running and what port to connect to.

It’s exactly the same for lein repl and boot repl.

@bozhidar https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider-nrepl/blob/master/src/cider_nrepl/main.clj#L66 would that be this line?

Yes.

This entire ns will be removed at some point, as this functionality was added to nREPL itself recently.

when does cider start looking for that text message?

Look for nrepl-server-filter in nrepl-client.el.

Why are you asking about this?

got it, thanks! Haha, I’m trying to get shadow-cljs, tools deps, my own server, and cider to work nicely together.

I realized how little i knew about cider, so I’m trying to understand how it works.

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