I did make a loader for bun once: https://github.com/borkdude/bun-squint-loader

not sure if that's the way to go though, just running the squint compiller and using vite on top of that is my favorite workflow right now

whats the best example of that I could look at? Maybe it also works for my use case too

here is an example project: https://github.com/squint-cljs/squint/tree/main/examples/vite-react

Cool! FYI, it's super trivial to just let vite to the compiling:

import { defineConfig } from "vite";
import preact from "@preact/preset-vite";
import { compileString } from "squint-cljs";

// 
export default defineConfig({
  plugins: [
    preact(),
    {
      name: "squint_compile",
      transform: function (src, id) {
        // compile cljs files to js
        if (/\.cljs$/.test(id)) {
          var js = compileString(src);
          return { code: js, map: null };
        }
      },
    },
  ],
});

I feel like this is slightly more elegant than running the squint compiler in a separate process?

perhaps, I don't know what you will run into with this approach :)

yeah, i wonder how it works with transitive stuff

the squint CLI doesn't care about transitive stuff at the moment, it just compiles the file that changed, that's it

then the vite plugin will do the hot-reloading based on the compiled .js files

I might look into this a bit more, I think a first class integration with something like Vite would be cool!