UPDATE: This post now contains obsolete information. Please read the new ClojureScript Quick Start instead
As of ClojureScript 0.0-2505 support for Node.js has improved to the point where a browserless workflow is now quite productive. I now prefer this approach when developing libraries where dealing with the browser is a distraction.
To show how fun and easy it is I’ve updated my mies-node Leiningen template. This template provides all the Node.js related boilerplate and includes source mapping support out of the box.
You can try it out with the following commands:
lein new mies-node hello-world
cd hello-world
lein npm install
lein cljsbuild auto
This will start an incremental build process. You can run your script with:
node run.js
If you would like to run your script on every change just edit your
project.clj :cljsbuild hello-world entry to look like the
following:
{:id "hello-world"
:source-paths ["src"]
:notify-command ["node" "run.js"] ;; << ADD THIS
:compiler {
:output-to "out/hello_world.js"
:output-dir "out"
:target :nodejs
:optimizations :none
:source-map true}}
Have fun!