I am searching for volunteers to help me get my idea going: a Gorilla-Repl discovery + hosted repl.

I want to discover all existing gorilla workbooks on github gist and github repos.

Then present them on a page, filterable by stars and tags.

Clicking any of them would automatically open the gorilla-viewer.

I think this would help greatly in making clojure workbooks as much a success as jupyter notebooks.

Next step would be to extend gorilla repl to edit gists directly.

This means one can save directly to gists, and does not need to work with local workbooks.

Third step would be to host repls for users.

So this means that anyone could create and edit workbooks online,

without having to install or run gorilla-repl.

This means obviously terminating repl sessions after some time,

I am thinking of running as many repl sessions as the server suppots,

and after that just not allowing new repl sessions.

It should not be complicated to let power-users run their own repl via a docker container,

and then they could just work on their own repl container (but via a central website)

Last thing I want to do is define repl-setup,

so basically define a project.clj and do a lein deps before running the repl.

This way workbooks that need uncommon libraries can be run also.

If anyone wants to help in this, please let me know 🙂

Hi. Is there a tool that would allow me to run a dependency's tests ? So far I have found none, but maybe there are tools that could help me to download the associated github repo and load-file every file in that dependency :test-paths. I expect those dependencies to be leiningen projects using clojure.test.

:thinking_face: is there any way to show the source of a function that you previously entered on repl ?

as source doesn't seem to be to tool for that

not of any help right now, but usually entering forms directly in the REPL is less ergonomic than sending them from your editor file, e.g. from within a comment form