I'm trying to figure out how best to setup my library to be consumed by both shadow-cljs and vanilla cljs projects re: npm deps

It depends on react

just depend on cljsjs/react

I was dissuaded from trying to use deps.cljs

Hmm. So if I need an alpha version of react, I'll probably have to get that onto cljsjs myself

yeah thats pretty much the only way for other cljs tools

for shadow-cljs it would be fine with deps.cljs {:npm-deps {"react" "that-version"}}

gotcha thanks!

unrelated question: you were doing some work on a UI for shadow-cljs. I remember seeing a REPL. was this a true, connected-to-my-app REPL?

actually just realized it’s in the current latest of shadow-cljs, answered my own question: it is! 😄

yeah. needs a lot more work though

is it talking nREPL to my app?

geez no. nrepl is a horrible protocol to work with 😛

also would be kinda pointless since the app is served by shadow-cljs

connecting to the nrepl server provided by shadow-cljs is an extra step we don't need 😉

haha!

I’m curious how it works then. I’m interested in embedding a CLJS REPL in an app for some dev tooling I’m thinking about… I was worried I would have to setup the self-hosted bootstrapping in any apps that used it tho

ah OK, looks like it’s talking over a websocket at the shadow-cljs app server using some custom format. it must be running that to shadow-cljs’ machinery for sending code to be evaluated in process

yes that part is the same as nrepl or any other shadow-cljs repl

the app talks to shadow-cljs via ws

cljs-repl is pretty tricky so its not super easy to embed from a library or so