I tried to set up nrepl on windows 10 with both 1)java 8/clojure 1.8 , lein 2.8.1 and 2) java 11 and clojure 1.10.0-beta4, lein 2.8.1 . In both cases when I tried running

lein nrepl

lein deps as shown below

:dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.8.0"]
				 [nrepl "0.4.5"]
				 [nrepl/lein-nrepl "0.2.0"]
				 [cider/cider-nrepl "0.18.0"] 
				 [refactor-nrepl    "2.4.0"] ]

do I need any plugins in project.clj and lein profiles.clj? Please advise?

I tried adding the same in plugins as well.. No luck

@manas.marthi That’s because lein nrepl current doesn’t have integration with reply (that’s the actual repl).

The assumption I had was that most people would use the alternative plugin just to start a server and they’d connect it manually using CIDER or something similar.

lein repl starts a server and then connects to it with REPLy. That’s something that can easily be added to lein nrepl. I just never needed it. 🙂