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wevrem 2025-07-29T18:50:31.730469Z
I've been running npm/npx (and thus shadow-cljs) in a docker container, to avoid installing it permanently on my system, via an alias like this in .zshrc:
npx () { docker run -it --rm -v $(pwd):/app -w /app node:24 npx "$@" }shadow-cljs - config: /app/shadow-cljs.edn
shadow-cljs - socket connect failed, server process dead?
shadow-cljs - starting via "clojure"
Executable 'clojure' not found on system path.
thheller 2025-07-29T19:13:12.836829Z
FWIW if you don't want to use npm you do not have to. works just fine without it (assuming you don't use any npm packages). see https://code.thheller.com/blog/shadow-cljs/2024/10/18/fullstack-cljs-workflow-with-shadow-cljs.html
thheller 2025-07-29T19:14:14.354079Z
the error suggests you have shadow-cljs.edn configured to use deps.edn. thus it tries to launch the jvm using the tools.deps clojure command. which it can't find in the node docker image. you can use one of the clojure images that has npm instead
thheller 2025-07-29T19:16:10.344219Z
or as I said if you have the clojure tools installed locally just run it without docker at all
thheller 2025-07-29T19:19:23.014319Z
cimg/clojure:1.12.0-openjdk-21.0-node docker img should work
thheller 2025-07-29T19:19:44.454499Z
wevrem 2025-07-29T21:21:26.772019Z
Thanks @thheller