Hey all. I wrote a watcher that looks at EDN file for changes. Once it finds a change it'll aggregate these files and output them into a CLJS file. I wanted to be able to write .edn format without having to use HTTP requests to get them. https://github.com/kwrooijen/cljs-auto

Any feedback would be appreciated 🙂 Maybe I'm not even solving this issue the right way

It also allows you to watch for newly created CLJS files, and add them in the :require option for the generated namespace. This is useful if you're using integrant in Clojurescript, since it doesn't support dynamic requires. Integrant has a feature to automatically require namespaces, but that isn't supported in CLJS

@kevin.van.rooijen The way people solve including files from the filesystem inside CLJS is usually with a macro (which is executed at compile time by the JVM)

Ahh, that's a good one. Does it also support auto reloading in that case?

If you're using shadow-cljs for example?

I think so?

Just like any other macro

All right, that seems like a much cleaner solution then! I'll try that out

I wonder if I could use macros to automatically add require statements to the namespace

I'm afraid that doesn't work well with CLJS.

That's too bad

CLJS is less dynamic than CLJ when it comes to namespaces

which imo is not a bad thing, makes it a lot easier on the tooling (e.g. clj-kondo)

but sometimes it's annoying

the main reason it's like this has to do with advanced compilation

Well it's not a big issue. Just a bit annoying having to require every module purely to access the multimethods

@kevin.van.rooijen What cannot be solved with macros can be solved with a simple scripts and code generation outside of the normal dev workflow

Well, I guess my tool has some purpose then haha

:thumbsup:

Thanks for the pointers