The most reliable way I found was to restart the cider repl. I use deps.edn projects and stop/starting a repl only takes a couple of seconds.

@U05254DQM I was looking at your guide actually https://practicalli.github.io/spacemacs/refactor/clj-refactor/managing-library-dependencies.html does cider-restart usually work? 😮

It seems to depend on the project and the version of CIDER / clj-refactor. I found clj-refactor unreliable and I beleive hot loading of dependencies in a running REPL was disabled, as it used to cause a lot of issues at one time. Not sure if it was re-enabled.

I see I see :o

Adding new namespaces works reliably without restarting the REPL, cider-ns-reload or cider-ns-refresh, but I've always stopped/started the REPL when adding a library dependency. cider-restart as I understand it only restarts the connection to the REPL and not the REPL itself. So I use cider-quit and cider-jack-in-clj

For example, if you start a REPL from cider-jack-in-clj and evaluate code, after a cider-restart those evaluations will still be there. At least that is what happened when I tested this.

I use sesman-restart after add dependencies, it works for me

Ohhhh @U018XDZJ4RG What's sesman actually? :o

https://metaredux.com/posts/2019/11/07/hard-cider-hard-restart.html here you go

@UUSQHP535 sesman is the session manager that is used with Cider. It can be used for managing all connections to the REPL. sesman-start provides a menu to choose a Clojure or ClojureScript REPL to jack-in to or connect to. sesman has a browser to show all current connections https://develop.spacemacs.org/layers/+lang/clojure/README.html#managing-repl-connections ,' calls sesman-start in the develop branch of Spacemacs for a while now along with the , m menu for managing connections