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shadow-cljs 2025-12-25
weavejester 2025-12-25T00:21:10.388559Z
I'm a little confused as to why modules are required to be interdependent. Is it just a limitation of the dependency graph?
thheller 2025-12-26T08:24:59.193989Z
they do share namespaces in common. cljs.core for example. it is very large and having a copy of it in a and b kinda makes code splitting (modules) redundant. you can just make two different builds if you do no care about that and rather have standalone files.
weavejester 2025-12-26T12:41:33.444569Z
Ah, good point! I was thinking about setting up two different builds but probably easier to set up a "blank" shared.js.
borkdude 2025-12-25T12:07:33.895439Z
Maybe because core functions should live in either module
borkdude 2025-12-25T12:08:12.814369Z
If you want to have two modules you can make them depend on the same base module
weavejester 2025-12-26T00:20:28.105399Z
Yeah, that's what I've done. 👍 I currently have an a.js for /a and a b.js for /b and because they're minimal they don't currently share any namespaces in common. Eventually I'd need a shared.js once the code got complex, but initially I was expecting I wouldn't need it. My guess is that Shadow CLJS either needs a single root because it's running just one dependency tree, or because it needs one place to put its own shared code (like the dynamic module loader).
I did a blank shared before to workaround it.