Steps to work with shadow-cljs

[knubie]

Hi, first of all, thanks for creating vim-iced, it's a fantastic plugin.

I just want to document my experience getting it set up and working with shadow-cljs, because it wasn't very straightforward, and this post might help other people in the future.

The following incantation worked for my project:

1. :IcedConnect
2. :IcedEvalRepl (shadow/repl {build-id})
3. :IcedEval and :IcedEvalVisual (not :IcedEvalRepl :IcedEvalReplVisual)

There were a couple of stumbling blocks I encountered when getting this to work.

1. Using :IcedStartCljsRepl shadow-cljs {build-id} did not work for me.
2. Not knowing the difference between :IcedEval and :IcedEvalRepl and when to use each.
   • E.g. At first I tried to eval project-specific code using :IcedEvalRepl, which didn't work.

I would be happy to look more into the :IcedStartCljsRepl issue and possible open a PR.

[liquidz]

@knubie Thank you for opening this issue.
It is very welcome to improve documents about shadow-cljs!

Using :IcedStartCljsRepl shadow-cljs {build-id} did not work for me.

Could you tell me the minimal steps to reproduce the problem?
I could confirm to work with following steps.

1. Generate a test project
   • https:/thheller/shadow-cljs#quick-start
2. Set up shadow-cljs.edn
   • https://liquidz.github.io/vim-iced/vim-iced.html#vim-iced-manual-shadow-cljs
3. Start to watch
   • npx shadow-cljs watch frontend
4. Open app.cljs
   • vim src/main/acme/frontend/app.cljs
5. Connect and start cljs repl
   • :IcedConnect
   • :IcedStartCljsRepl shadow-cljs frontend

Not knowing the difference between :IcedEval and :IcedEvalRepl and when to use each.

:IcedEval is a evaluation method for the current namespace, so you should use only :IcedEval basically.
:IcedEvalRepl is a evaluation method for the initial namespace of REPL(such as :init-ns in project.clj), and vim-iced detects the session switching with this method.
So you must use :IcedEvalRepl for starting cljs repl.

Other examples: :IcedEvalRepl is useful for starting a system (go, reset or etc) in integrant-repl.
https:/weavejester/integrant-repl

[knubie]

@liquidz Thank you for helping me troubleshoot! I can confirm that everything works as expected with the shadow-cljs test project, and I also discovered why it wasn't working for my project. 😁

I was running

:IcedStartCljsRepl shadow-cljs :my-build

Instead of

:IcedStartCljsRepl shadow-cljs my-build

Passing :my-build would then become ::my-build (:shadow.user/my-build).

I will let you decide if the docs should be amended.

またありがとうございました！

[liquidz]

@knubie Great!

Passing :my-build would then become ::my-build (:shadow.user/my-build).

Oh, it is confusing. Sorry!
I'll fix to trim the beginning colon.