Backend dev here. I’ve been meaning to look into Clojure for a while but haven’t found the right opportunity yet. I am working on a side project; the backend is in Erlang, and I’ve never had any experience with front-end dev. So I was wondering: can I kill two birds with one stone here, learn Clojure and dev the front end? Is ClojureScript a good choice for someone like me starting a project from scratch, or are there better alternatives?

@remilouf CLJS is a great choice. I'd recommend figwheel, devcards & reagent as a starting point.

[there may be templates/sample projects with this combination of things which you can clone as a starting point. it's been a while since I started a new one].

@remilouf I would add re-com to those. Having put all of those together, I can definitely vouch that the results are amazingly good.

hello ~ somebody know how to inject(or contain?) into my webpage? i think repl is very useful to manipulate data.

@johanatan @jsa-aerial Thanks for the pointers! I’ll give CLJS a try :)

@jsa-aerial @remilouf ah, yep. re-com is good too.

I'm currently trying to dynamically generate clojure.spec definitions, but am running into cljs.core/*eval* not bound...my strategy in a nutshell has been:

(eval `(s/def ::my-spec ~some-form))

I'm sure there is some fundamental reason that this won't work in cljs...

Oh: https://gist.github.com/mfikes/66a120e18b75b6f4a3ecd0db8a976d84

This is painfully obvious in hindsight 😅

I've resorted to writing clojure.spec-generating macros to solve this. Eliminates the need for eval.

Happy new year to everyone! Apologies if this has been asked and answered:

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