host is localhost, a given IP, DNS name, etc

cider-jack-in-clj&cljs might be your best bet if you don't wish to tinker much at the Sesman level. I use it all the time 🙂

yeah, the README for the project recommends booting the cljs REPL using a command line shortcut. I always blindly believed it was doing some more work in the background, but just dug and it seems not! let me try the double jack in

never mind. I now remember why I do that:

In the case of using separate config files for the clj and cljs dependencies (e.g. clj dependencies in deps.edn and cljs dependencies in shadow-cljs.edn) it is currently impossible to group those two repls in the same session. However, this can be worked around with cider-merge-sessions. Setting it to 'host will combine all sessions associated with the same host within a project. Setting it to 'project will combine all sessions in the same project.

You might not want to group those two repls in the same session anyway, let's see Are you working with .cljc files?

yes, but not frequently / I rarely eval stuff individually from those

so would be fine with a REPL for clj, another for cljs, no REPL for cljc

So if you jack in once for clj, another time for cljs, each evaluation for a given .clj or .cljs buffer should be routed to the right repl if cider-merge-sessions is nil (default value) Is that not the case?

trying that now, but got The required namespace "devtools.preload" is not available. when doing cider-jack-in-cljs through emacs instead of connecting. let me see what's up with that

ah, I'm missing a profile

Ok. Either way, cider-connect + cider-connect-cljs would be an equivalent experiement

what about cider-jack-in + cider-connect-cljs? wouldn't that work for some reason?

should also work :)

I get a working REPL, but my buffer doesn't link to it

just saw a warning, though

WARNING: CIDER requires cider-nrepl to be fully functional. Some features will not be available without it! (More information)
To quit, type: :cljs/quit
[:selected :dev]WARNING: clj-refactor and refactor-nrepl are out of sync.
Their versions are 3.10.0 and n/a, respectively.
You can mute this warning by changing cljr-suppress-middleware-warnings.shadow.user> 

so let me try to fix that now

that was it! I'm connected to both REPLs now

thank you!

Alright, happy to read that! If this doesn't work smoothly please raise an issue, this use case (.clj / .cljs files with no possible ambiguity) should be supported OOTB

will do! thanks for the help 😄

For completeness sake, as of lately you can choose a fixed destination for .cljc files - it's the cider-clojurec-eval-destination defcustom: https://docs.cider.mx/cider/cljs/up_and_running.html#working-with-cljc-files

work yesterday and today has been much more enjoyable now that I can use two REPLs simultaneously. thanks again for the help!