Clojurians Log v2

I hope you are not typing into the actual node-repl prompt and rather use your editor?

if so your editor is likely using nrepl to connect, which you can use to do all sorts of things, such as starting a node-repl without it needing to be started from the command line

Oh wow, if I understand you correctly (and this seems to be the case from a quick try) I can just start the webapp (browser) build watch in a single terminal, and then use my editor (emacs + CIDER, fwiw) to fire up a separate node-repl on the same shadow server?

I certainly had the wrong mental model of what was going on, thank you for this step of my enlightenment.

yes, heck you don't even need to start the watch from the terminal. npx shadow-cljs clj-repl or just npx shadow-cljs server will just start the server (including the nrepl server)

when connected to that you can do (shadow.cljs.devtools.api/watch :the-build {}) to start a watch

and (shadow.cljs.devtools.api/node-repl) to start the and switch the node repl

oh and all of of of course also via http://localhost:9630 😉

I've learned a lot, thanks 🙇

currently I'm starting the node-repl in one terminal, waiting for the server to boot, and then starting the watch in a second terminal (which starts very fast because the awesome server is being found).