Have you opened your app in the browser?

yeah, and the bottom repl evaluates expressions fine (i can do (js/alert "yo") and it works without issue)

I can even load up the namespace in the repl, but i can't eval forms from the top buffer

(require 'cider.nrepl.middleware) works and I did not include it in my deps.edn nice!

I don't know much about the sideloader (or should I say ciderloader? ) I believe @U07FP7QJ0 is the man

it seems to all work very well

(apart from the warning, that I am leaving on just to understand that I need to upgrade :D)

It doesn't currently load refactor-nrepl, but this can be added in clj-refactor.el.

I've yet to document this properly on http://docs.cider.mx, but there's plenty of info about the sideloader on http://nrepl.org.

And we also have the blog posts by Arne

https://lambdaisland.com/blog/2021-11-24-making-nrepl-cider-more-dynamic-2

which I still need to update based on some input from Bozhidar 🙈 thanks for the reminder

Note that (as I write) I'm not convinced the sideloader is that interesting/useful, but dynamically adding middleware is a game changer.

FWIW we have also another use case, we would like to load portal when we side load cider-nrepl...it is very nice to have both in dev mode 😄

Right, but same thing applies. Multiple ways to get that onto the classpath, of which the sideloader is IMO the most inferior.

Yeah I remember you mentioned that in the blog post, thanks for working on this stuff by the way!