I think it's just using the cljs.user.f value. If you type window.cljs.user.f into the console, does it show a value? If you change window.cljs.user.f to another value, does the call still work?

Ah this is exactly what I wanted to know. I didn't realize there was a window.cljs object for program state. But I can also eval "(dmacs.api/f ..)" and that will call a function f that I defined in the namespace. So eval has access to all program namespaces and functions through this window object?

when you compile without advanced optimizations, the values defined in namespaces are all stored at my.namespace.def_name, eg. dmacs.api/f => window.dmacs.api.f

Wow thank you so much. When I do get to optimizations, is there a way to preserve these namespaces?

in general, yes, you can use ^:export, https://clojurescript.org/reference/advanced-compilation#access-from-javascript eg:

(defn ^:export square [x]
  (* x x))

i'm not sure if cljs eval is supported with advanced optimizations

if you can, I would highly recommend avoiding eval usage in clojurescript

https://clojurescript.org/reference/bootstrappingf you can't avoid eval, you can check out https://clojurescript.org/reference/bootstrapping and there's a #bootstrapped-cljs channel

using eval in cljs is neat, but its usage has several caveats and it will dramatically increase the size of your shipped js

Ah I see, it's definitely unavoidable for my application but this is good to know

have you considered https://github.com/borkdude/sci ?