Hi folks. Is it possible to use shadow-cljs as a library, to (e.g.) compile a cljs string into a js string? Thanks.

technically yes but no. depending on what you are doing you are likely better off using cljs.analyzer directly

Wonderful! Thank you! Looks like cljs.build.api/build does most of what I want, as long as I don't want advanced optimizations. Would there be a way to have pieces of shadow assist with that?

without knowing what you intend to do I can't answer that

This is for #oz I want to allow users of oz to build snippets of cljs->javascript in with their notebooks/blog-posts/documentation.

define "snippets"?

There are two goals with respect to this: • Make it possible to inline reagent components in the context of a document (code block in a markdown file, for example) • Plug reagent components into a multimethod dispatch system, so that oz's live-view can be "extended"

that would require building the live-view code as part of the snippets?

Yes, I believe so

(I'm assuming here you ship a pre-built .js file currently?)

Yes, correct

extending a :advanced build after the fact is pretty much impossible

Got it; That's sort of what I was afraid of.

well you can always just stick to basic JS types, that won't be a problem

but multi methods and general CLJS datatypes won't really work

OK; That makes sense.

my general recommendation would be a take your snippets and somehow generate a regular .cljs file out of that

then compile that as a regular build via the CLJ API (same as a regular build config really)

that will ensure that you get a file you can actually load on your html page

just compiling snippets leaves a lot of manual stuff for you to do that are easy to mess up (eg. loading all sources in proper dependency order)

but yeah you probably need to compile some or all of your other live-view related code together with that

That makes sense. Thank you!