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I’m interested in using lumo for command line works. Got a few questions. 1. Is there any usage example that I can learn from out there? 2. If I want to interact with i/o (filesystem, network), should I shell out to use bash stuffs like cp, curl etc or should I use Node.js standard library like fs, http? 3. To shell out, I should use something like child_process (https://nodejs.org/api/child_process.html), right? 4. If I want to use npm libraries, how to I pack them into single easy-to-distribute file? Is that what calvin is for? Any calvin example I can learn from?

jonpither11:02:06

hi - great work on Lumo everyone

jonpither11:02:33

Have a question - I want to incorporate a lib - spec.cljs - into a CLJS project that I npm install, and invoke with Lumo. Anyone walked this path?

dominicm14:02:23

@anmonteiro did you get a chance to look into that dependency stuff? I'd like to write a cli tool which uses a nodejs dependency & not sure if I'll be able to.

anmonteiro15:02:11

@dominicm I did not and I should feel bad; I've had the tab open for ages. I'll ping you over the weekend

anmonteiro15:02:16

Cool I'll look at it too

dominicm15:02:52

@anmonteiro I think I answered @jonpither's question in the JUXT slack 😛

anmonteiro15:02:01

Fo you mean using cljs.spec from Lumo?

anmonteiro15:02:48

It's really cool to see how JUXT has picked up Lumo

anmonteiro15:02:05

Motivates me to work on it a little more

anmonteiro15:02:14

Just wanna say I appreciate it you guys

dominicm15:02:32

It's exciting tech. @malcolmsparks has called 2017 "The year of Clojurescript on the server"

anmonteiro15:02:07

There are some Lumo news coming soon, I'm hoping mid-next week

anmonteiro15:02:36

Gonna take advantage of the 3-day weekend to try and release it

jonpither16:02:18

Lumo is awesome thus far @anmonteiro. I'm working also on https://github.com/juxt/roll which I'm using Lumo (via Mach) to drive. Haven't had as much fun for ages 🙂

malcolmsparks16:02:41

I have some scripts I've written for allowing admins to rotate passwords. Lumo has been a great choice

jonpither16:02:20

@anmonteiro look forward to seeing your updates. Right now we're using Roll, by doing this in a Machfile: #eval "node_modules/@juxt/roll/src/roll/core.cljs", to reuse NPM Cljs modules...

anmonteiro16:02:53

Right. I think the story around consuming libraries and modules is not thought out at all

anmonteiro16:02:11

I can't decide if it should be a part of Lumo or not

anmonteiro16:02:05

I suppose we could attempt to read some kind of file (the equivalent to project.clj or build.boot) when starting up

dominicm16:02:42

@anmonteiro I feel like there's tension between how clojurescript currently expects to find dependencies & so on, & how node.js finds dependencies too.

anmonteiro16:02:45

But that's only half the story. Publishing artifacts being the other half

anmonteiro16:02:32

The problem is we must emulate the classpath to be able to consume CLJS deps

anmonteiro16:02:49

But we don't really need that notion to import Node packages

anmonteiro16:02:13

This has worked out really well, that's not the part I'm worried about

anmonteiro16:02:19

I just feel like Lumo is in the equivalent state of calling Clojure via java -cp ... clojure.main

jonpither16:02:41

@anmonteiro I'd be a little wary - perhaps for no good reason - about leaning on project.clj... right now we have a simple Machfile.edn that uses Lumo and it's nice to be out of the usual Lein/Boot JVM world. But hey, I've only just rocked up into this space

anmonteiro16:02:47

And there could be an easier path to enlightenment

anmonteiro16:02:23

@jonpither: I'm not suggesting we use the JVM

anmonteiro16:02:30

Just drawing parallels

dominicm16:02:40

@anmonteiro I like your approach of leaving Lumo to be the java -cp. I love that we have competing lein & boot.

anmonteiro16:02:17

Cool. Mostly I'm just looking to gather community feedback

anmonteiro16:02:22

And go from there

jonpither16:02:23

yeah - I was more commenting on using project.clj. But I read your point more carefully, apologies: I suppose we could attempt to read some kind of file (the equivalent to project.clj or build.boot) when starting up

anmonteiro16:02:00

Keep in mind that Lumo is just 3 months old :-)

jonpither16:02:38

One think we wondering with Mach, is if there were a way to suck down cljs file dependencies from Git even 🙂

anmonteiro16:02:41

We've got a lot to do and learn

jonpither16:02:12

that's more appropiate for Mach, but prob less so for Lumo where people will want NPM like repos with lots of interdependent cljs in

anmonteiro16:02:28

The problem with that is CLJS projects may not have your expected structure

anmonteiro16:02:01

Unlike Golang which can do it because they enforce a certain structure

anmonteiro16:02:35

klipse does it in some cases but I'm not sure if it's hardcoded or not

jonpither16:02:05

ah ok, so people might not even have the src in src/cljs for example

anmonteiro16:02:07

I suppose NPM can also do that because it reads package.json, which not every CLJS project will have

jonpither16:02:52

Could you make the rule that any dependent project must have the package.json to be supported?

anmonteiro16:02:18

I think it just needs some maturity. David Nolen has told me more than once that we can't get anything done in less than 2 years

anmonteiro16:02:35

Let's see how the state of Lumo is in 2yrs :-)

anmonteiro16:02:56

@jonpither: that would be one solution, but it needs education

anmonteiro16:02:24

But I didn't even have the time to put together a docs website yet :/

jonpither16:02:39

hehe. The pressure of success 🙂

anmonteiro16:02:14

I could maybe start by opening the Wiki, and go from there

anmonteiro16:02:24

Then people could help me start it

dominicm16:02:32

@anmonteiro Am I grasping the entirety of the difficulties with: - Node.js uses main for exposing apis mostly, with a main being the only entrypoint to the project, which normally exposes the rest of the api, slightly unsuitable for cljs deps - Clojurescript expects a list of folders in which to search for ns/file.clj based namespacing - There's currently no way to start downloading jars from maven in node.js which could be used to form a "classpath"

dominicm16:02:00

Oh and uncertainty over registry of traditional clojars/maven vs npm

jonpither16:02:23

Just from our hacky Mach prototype, I could envisage changing: #eval "node_modules/@juxt/roll/src/roll/core.cljs" to #eval ["@juxt/roll" :roll.core] where it a) looks for the roll npm module, b) uses the package.json to determine where the source is c) expects the file to be there based on the second arg

jonpither16:02:46

not sure how this helps lumo, just spouting

anmonteiro16:02:53

@dominicm: 1,2 and last can be summed up as heterogeneity of NPM vs traditional Maven repos, but you get it

anmonteiro16:02:40

Getting those deps could be solved with NPM and Huckleberry, but I don't know if Huckleberry is ready for usage yet

anmonteiro16:02:01

If you don't know what it is I'll send the link when I'm at the computer

anmonteiro16:02:39

@dominicm: another problem to think about is how to declare a project's dependencies in a declarative, straightforward way (linking back to the project.clj talk)

anmonteiro16:02:06

I'm more than happy to open the Lumo wiki where we can distill these ideas in a design page

dominicm16:02:18

@anmonteiro I feel like a tool can be built on Huckleberry to fetch deps & run lumo with the classpath set. Which would make me think that Maven is the logical place to host code with cljs in it. There would still need to be node.js dependencies, but those can also be resolved by that same build tool using npm as a lib (or in a better world maybe yarn as a lib)

dominicm17:02:31

https://github.com/anmonteiro/lumo/pull/41 if something like this got merged, I think the boot equivalent wouldn't be too difficult…

anmonteiro17:02:49

that’ll get merged eventually

anmonteiro17:02:22

unfortunately the work I’m gonna be landing this weekend kinda moves the project structure around a little bit so there’ll be some conflicts

anmonteiro17:02:05

I know @npeckman hasn’t had a lot of time to work on it, but it’ll be in Lumo in the near future

npeckman17:02:41

I've been working on it a lot this week, I'm currently struggling to get js zip to do what I want. Should have some time to really nail down my issues tomorrow and get it in a place you can evaluate soon!

anmonteiro17:02:08

@npeckman awesome. feel free to shoot any questions about JSZip

npeckman17:02:55

@anmonteiro my big problem is this: when I get the zip object for the jar (an array of files) the files don't have the name field populated. Like when I get a file object off the array, I use the toText () method to see the file, and the name field on the object exists as the documentation states, but the name field is just an empty object. Trying to list all the file names so this is a big barrier

anmonteiro17:02:16

@npeckman that hasn’t been my experience

npeckman17:02:50

I know the library is mature so I figure it's my fault, just trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong.

anmonteiro17:02:55

umo 1.1.0
ClojureScript 1.9.456
 Docs: (doc function-name-here)
 Exit: Control+D or :cljs/quit or exit

cljs.user=> (def JSZip (js/require "jszip"))
#'cljs.user/JSZip
cljs.user=> (def zip (.load (JSZip.) (fs.readFileSync "om.jar")))
#'cljs.user/zip
cljs.user=> (.-name (.file zip "om/next.cljc"))
"om/next.cljc"
cljs.user=>

anmonteiro17:02:59

^ here’s an example

anmonteiro17:02:01

@npeckman you can also get all the files in the Zip, e.g.:

Lumo 1.1.0
ClojureScript 1.9.456
 Docs: (doc function-name-here)
 Exit: Control+D or :cljs/quit or exit

cljs.user=> (def JSZip (js/require "jszip"))
#'cljs.user/JSZip
cljs.user=> (def zip (.load (JSZip.) (fs.readFileSync "om.jar")))
#'cljs.user/zip
cljs.user=> (js/Object.keys zip.files)
#js ["META-INF/MANIFEST.MF" "META-INF/maven/org.omcljs/om/pom.xml" "META-INF/leiningen/org.omcljs/om/project.clj" "project.clj" "META-INF/leiningen/org.omcljs/om/README.md" "META-INF/" "META-INF/maven/" "META-INF/maven/org.omcljs/" "META-INF/maven/org.omcljs/om/" "META-INF/maven/org.omcljs/om/pom.properties" "data_readers.clj" "deps.cljs" "om/" "om/checksums.clj" "om/core.clj" "om/core.cljs" "om/dom.cljc" "om/dom.cljs" "om/externs.js" "om/impl.cljs" "om/next/" "om/next/cache.cljs" "om/next/impl/" "om/next/impl/parser.cljc" "om/next/protocols.cljc" "om/next/server.clj" "om/next.cljc" "om/tempid.cljc" "om/transit.cljc" "om/util.cljc"]
cljs.user=>

npeckman17:02:19

@anmonteiro Thanks for the examples, think I'll be able to use them to hammer out my problems pretty quickly. I think the other big thing you needed were tests, I really hope to get that all to you before the weekend starts

anmonteiro17:02:00

@npeckman no rush, as I said there are some changes coming to the project structure and there’ll be conflicts 🙂

pesterhazy17:02:26

what's the big change?

pesterhazy17:02:39

don't keep us in the dark!

pesterhazy17:02:53

inquiring minds want to know

anmonteiro17:02:36

no changes, just accretions

anmonteiro17:02:17

hoping to make startup even faster too

anmonteiro17:02:23

I have an idea or 2

anmonteiro17:02:33

not that’s it’s slow right now 😇

pesterhazy17:02:41

it really isn't 🙂

pesterhazy17:02:10

I have some free time over the next few weeks, maybe I can do some hacking on lumo too,

pesterhazy17:02:21

if there are any low hanging fruits?

anmonteiro17:02:38

this one seems easy too, and awesome for UX https://github.com/anmonteiro/lumo/issues/62

pesterhazy17:02:14

no promises but will see what I can do

stbgz18:02:03

@jonpither I put some work to rsolve the deps gathering issue you can take a look at https://github.com/eginez/calvin

stbgz18:02:51

@dominicm the calvin project I have been working on address "There's currently no way to start downloading jars from maven in node.js which could be used to form a “classpath””, in fact calvin is already creating a classpath for you and launching the repl with such classpath, granted is reading project.clj but that doesn’t need to be the case

stbgz18:02:31

@npeckman I had an issue like that last week when I was trying to work with JZip I’ll commit my code to github a pass you the link, I think you might find it useful

jonpither18:02:15

@stbgz great I'll check it out - thanks!