Hey there. I’m a relative newbie just getting to grips with Clojurescript and shadow-cljs, and have a quick workflow/REPL question: I’m running/hot-reloading my application with shadow-cljs watch, and connecting to the REPL with Cider. When I add a new dependency to shadow-cljs.edn, do I need to stop and restart the watch command in order to be able to use it, or is there something I can do via the REPL to install it and make it available right away?

Okay, found the answer to my own question: it looks like adding/changing dependencies does always require restarting the server, if I’m understanding the docs correctly. > Once the server is running however you only have to restart it whenever your :dependencies change and everything else can be done via the REPL. https://shadow-cljs.github.io/docs/UsersGuide.html#_server_mode

Would still appreciate some clarity on this, actually: If I’m developing with shadow-cljs watch, what should I do when I add a dependency? Trying to restart the server by running shadow-cljs restart in another terminal seemed to break the connection with the browser and REPL.

Just kill the process and restart the watch

Hi all, I'm learning Clojure(Script) and for that I'm doing a little project. In this little project I setup a JNI with Rust, which made me use lein so that I can correctly compile the Java file I had in my project. I'm also the kind of person who likes to write to learn, and I'm writing about the project setup. But to truly write something good I have to understand why I had to use lein (I honestly don't know, a friend simply said it would work if I did, and it worked). Is there any resource where I can understand if shadow-cljs can compile .java files, and if not, why it can't?

I’m running a shadow watch

but am getting the following error:

The required namespace “appname.core” is not available.

even though the app name exists in the src/appname/core.cljs folder

with the ns as appname.core

here’s my shadow-cljs.edn file

{:paths [“src”] :dependencies [[reagent “0.10.0"] [re-frame “0.12.0”] [re-frame-steroid “0.1.1"] [rn-shadow-steroid “0.2.1”] [re-frisk-remote “1.3.3"]] :builds {:dev {:target :react-native :init-fn appname.core/init :output-dir “app” :compiler-options {:closure-defines {“re_frame.trace.trace_enabled_QMARK_” true}} :devtools {:after-load steroid.rn.core/reload :build-notify steroid.rn.core/build-notify :preloads [re-frisk-remote.preload]}}}}

@ps does appname maybe contain a -? Then the folder would need to be app_name

it doesn’t contain a hyphen

the folder and the namespace have the same name and contain only the alphabet characters

ah now I see it. it is :source-paths not :paths

thanks @thheller

for some reason following these steps to compile to react native target isn’t working: https://morioh.com/p/ac368dc1fceb

when I empty the index.js to just

import './app/index.js';

actually I’m getting the error:

element type is invalid: expected a string

but got object

you likely forgot to export the component from the file it is defined in

is registerComponent required in ./index.js or does it come with the register-reload-comp?

sorry don't know what register-reload-comp is

the index.js is just supposed to load the CLJS output, it shouldn't do anything else. at least in the examples I set up.

that’s exactly what I do

import ‘./app/index.js’;

but that doesn’t register the app

element type is invalid: expected a string usually means that some component you are using was nil

its your job to register the app

yes but the error you are getting doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the root component

[:> something {:foo "bar"}] when something is nil you'll get this error

I’m not getting the expected string error when ./index.js just contains the import

do you use expo?

no i don’t

What's your init defn (code snippet)?

(defn init [] (rn/register-reload-comp {:name “Something”} root-comp))

also tried (defn init [] (AppRegistry {:name “Something”} root-comp))

by doing [“react-native” :refer [AppRegistry SafeAreaView]]

I meant, also tried this (defn init [] (. AppRegistry registerComponent {:name “Something”} root-comp))

compiles successfully but Appname isn’t registered

this is CLJS {:name “Something”} maybe you want #js {:name “Something”}

still registration problem 😞

Try like this:

(defn init []
  (rn/register-reload-comp "Something" root-comp))

same problem

not registered

why does it say that registerComponent wasn’t called when it was called?

hard to say without all the code

(ns appname.core
  (:require [steroid.rn.core :as rn]
            ["react-native" :refer (View AppRegistry SafeAreaView)]))

(defn root-comp []
  [:> View "view"]
  #_[rn/view
    [rn/text "Hello CLojure! from CLJS"]])

(defn init []
  (. AppRegistry registerComponent #js {:name "Something"} root-comp))

and ./index.js is

import './app/index.js';

shadow-cljs.edn is

{:source-paths ["src"]

 :dependencies [[reagent "0.10.0"]
                [re-frame "0.12.0"]
                [re-frame-steroid "0.1.1"]
                [rn-shadow-steroid "0.2.1"]
                [re-frisk-remote "1.3.3"]]

 :builds       {:dev
                {:target     :react-native
                 :init-fn    appname.core/init
                 :output-dir "app"
                 :compiler-options {:closure-defines
                                    {"re_frame.trace.trace_enabled_qmark_" true}}
                 :devtools   {:after-load steroid.rn.core/reload
                              :build-notify steroid.rn.core/build-notify
                              :preloads [re-frisk-remote.preload]}}}}

dont call register component like that

how to call it instead?

like the example does

you mean this repo? https://github.com/thheller/reagent-react-native

I couldn’t search for registerComponent call in this repo

this call is doing that https://github.com/thheller/reagent-react-native/blob/master/src/main/test/app.cljs#L36

I now have my code as the example but I’m still getting the not registered error:

(ns appname.core (:require [steroid.rn.core :as rn] [shadow.react-native :refer (render-root)] [reagent.core :as r] [“react-native” :refer (Text SafeAreaView View AppRegistry SafeAreaView)])) (defn root-comp [] [:> SafeAreaView [:> View [:> Text “Some Text”]]]) (defn init [] (render-root “Root” (r/as-element [root-comp])))

is Root the name of your app? it needs to match whatever you have in app.json or so

Okay now it works!

I don't really do react-native myself so I'm just guessing with all of this 😛

Thanks so much!

Don't know if this more of a ClojureScript or a shadow-cljs issue, but I guess I'll try my luck here first: I'm working on integrating Playwright (https://playwright.dev) into one of my projects. I have a macro like this:

(defmacro test-page
  [browser-types page-sym & body]
  `(cljs.test/async done#
     (cljs.core.async/go
       (doseq [browser-type# ~browser-types]
         (let [browser# (cljs.core.async.interop/<p! (.launch browser-type#))
               page# (cljs.core.async.interop/<p! (.newPage browser#))
               ~page-sym page#]
           [email protected]
           (done#))))))

(deftest smoke
  (test-page [chromium] page
    (<p! (.goto page ""))
    (is (= "Nope" (<p! (.innerText page ".navbar__title"))))))

10 |   (test-page [chromium] page
---------^----------------------------------------------------------------------
 Cannot infer target type in expression (. inst_47307 (newPage))

Hello folks! What is the best practice for using JS libraries for the browser distributed via CDN? Simply add <script ...> to the html and use it via js/exportedThing ? Thank you!

core.async loses ^js typehint information unfortunately so its kinda hard to typehint that stuff properly

@flowthing you can turn off the warnings via :compiler-options {:infer-externs true} (not :auto). that way you only get warnings if you (set! *warn-on-infer* true) in the ns

@holyjak yes thats fine. this also works https://shadow-cljs.github.io/docs/UsersGuide.html#js-resolve-global

@thheller Thanks! Will give that a try. Works great! 🙇:skin-tone-2:

has anyone tried to let closure handle modules generated by typescript?

Yeah. Worked fine from my memory

@mail024 did you use https://github.com/angular/tsickle?

No, no experience with that. but thats probably the way to go to get optimisations. I just compiled to js and used shadow’s js integration

certainly wasnt an optimised experience. Was just for convinience pasting ts/js code into a file and using from cljs

ah oh, so using it like a normal node module

exactly. I used the option on the ts compiler to keep directory structure. Then added the output to the classpath.

So i had the ts files sitting alongside the cljs files.

and a ./x.js in cljs land worked because the directory structure was persisted

if the code is ESM you will get full advanced optimizations when included via https://shadow-cljs.github.io/docs/UsersGuide.html#classpath-js

only trouble is externs inference doesn't work for the JS code so if that code uses a lot of npm code you might need manual externs

@thheller You might find the conversation I just had with @dnolen on #clojurescript interesting.

I've been thinking about writing a cljs compiler that outputs only modern ESM code directly for a while now

but a whole lot of effort for little gain currently

I went down the route of tsickle for a lib awhile back but IIRC the goog.module output it produces wasn't amenable for use with CLJS

I had to hand-modify the files after compilation to use the old module system