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• Holy grail

#+BEGIN_QUOTE Well, on second thought, let's not go to Camelot -- it is a silly place. — King Arthur #+END_QUOTE

** What is it?

This demonstrates the holy grail workflow for web development the way I envision it: an auto-restartable back-end in the REPL + a hot-reloadable front-end in the browser.

This workflow is built on top of [[http://boot-clj.com/][Boot]], a build tool, and [[https://github.com/danielsz/system/tree/master/examples/boot][system]], a component library.

** Installation Clone this repo, cd into it and start the development pipeline build. #+BEGIN_SRC shell $git clone git@github.com:danielsz/holygrail.git$ cd holygrail $ boot dev #+END_SRC

** Principle of operation Compose a build pipeline:

#+BEGIN_SRC clojure (deftask dev "Run a restartable system in the Repl" [] (comp (environ :env {:http-port 3000}) (watch) (system :sys #'dev-system :auto true :files ["handler.clj"]) (reload) (cljs) (repl :server true))) #+END_SRC

Start it:

#+BEGIN_SRC shell $ boot dev #+END_SRC

The headless REPL advertises its coordinates. #+BEGIN_SRC shell nREPL server started on port 49722 on host 127.0.0.1 - nrepl://127.0.0.1:49722 #+END_SRC

You can connect to it if you plan to do development in the REPL (M-x cider-connect in Emacs works great).

Your web app is started and listening at [[http://localhost:3000]].

The auto option in the system boot task takes care of your application lifecycle. Your system will automatically be reset after editing handler.clj. Changes elsewhere that do not require a system restart will be reloaded on the fly everytime you save your work.

Note: The build.boot in this repo already contains those options.

** Demo

A demo video that tries to demonstrate how developing for the web can be a liberating and seamless experience.

#+HTML:

Do you feel the creative juices flow? Are you ready for endless hours of sheer creative output?