Hm I think it might be the namespace is never loaded

this is the normal expected behavior yes

you must load a namespace and switch to it manually

by default when starting a REPL you start in the cljs.user namespace

depending on which commands you use loading and switching may be separate commands

I’ve tried to load the namespace manually but that didn’t work

loaded how and what didn't work?

but that might be a problem with Cursive

unlikely. I use Cursive myself and never had any issues with the REPL

Basically to fix it I had to include the NS in require statement of the root app ns

this doesn't tell me anything

I’ll test this again I think, there might be some other issue at play

> And in this namespace I have imports:

why did you list this ns specifically? what did you do with it?

the mere presence of it does nothing on its own

I think the problem was that the folder was not part of the CLJS build

if its a REPL only ns it probably shouldn't be

Goes like this:

Connecting to remote nREPL server...
Clojure 1.11.1
(shadow/nrepl-select :main)
To quit, type: :cljs/quit
=> [:selected :main]
(in-ns 'roklenarcic.cookery.dev-cli)
=> nil
Loading src/main/roklenarcic/cookery/ui/category.cljs... 
------ WARNING - :redef --------------------------------------------------------
 Resource: <eval>:33:1
 abs already refers to: cljs.core/abs being replaced by: cljc.java-time.duration/abs
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


config
------ WARNING - :undeclared-var -----------------------------------------------
 Resource: <eval>:1:1
 Use of undeclared Var /config
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

=> nil

so in cursive I’ve changed the NS and then loaded the NS

(in-ns 'roklenarcic.cookery.dev-cli) doesnt' load the ns, it only switches to it

right but the next command loaded it

and if you reverse the order of those commands?

or wait

it says Loading src/main/roklenarcic/cookery/ui/category.cljs...

that is not roklenarcic.cookery.dev-cli

ah the warning stops the load?

the redef warning

I'm unsure what you are asking now

I am triggering the load with CMD+Shift+L in roklenarcic.cookery.dev-cli

(in-ns 'roklenarcic.cookery.dev-cli) this is likely the first problem

fix that

but it says

Loading src/main/roklenarcic/cookery/ui/category.cljs... 
------ WARNING - :redef --------------------------------------------------------

I don't know what that keybinding is

which cursive command does it execute?

it’s cursive for load NS of current file

again. can we please start at step 1?

so the category.cljs is required from this one so I am assuming that warning prevent compilation

otherwise you might be starting out at some weird broken state that causes all other weird stuff

I cannot see your code so I don't know what these namespaces are doing. so for me there is a lot of guessing involved which makes every step harder to debug 😛

dev-cli is an empty ns with multiple requires to other namespaces, nothing else at this point

then it is NOT empty

but to be extra clear hear: if you issue an in-ns WITHOUT the namespace being already loaded that is an ERROR

so, either load that namespace first properly

or don't issue that command at all

warnings will also stop the load of the namespace

I think the main problem is that namespace that is required that produces a warning, if I comment that one out then things work as expected

Now I just need to fix

------ WARNING - :redef --------------------------------------------------------
 Resource: <eval>:33:1
 abs already refers to: cljs.core/abs being replaced by: cljc.java-time.duration/abs
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

that’s in a library I use somewhere so I cannot affect the code directly

likely just need to update that library?

let’s hope so… thanks

just for correctness sake

before in-ns you should do (require 'roklenarcic.cookery.dev-cli)

otherwise in-ns will just issue a blank (ns roklenarcic.cookery.dev-cli) which means your require aliases won't be available