boot+figwheel example

A boot+figwheel example, that hot reloads cljs and less. Client and server-side use of rum.

prerequisits

Install boot!

run/watch

boot dev

hot reload cljs and css

• visit http://localhost:8080
• change core.cljs to watch the js reload!
• change app.main.less to watch the css reload!

connect the cljs browser repl

• connect to the repl server (e.g. with cider-connect in emacs, or like this in cursive. The port number is logged when you run boot dev.)
• at the prompt boot.user> type (boot-figwheel/cljs-repl)
• type (js/alert "woah!") to watch an alert box pop open in the browser
• woah!

useful boot tasks

Build a single composed task, e.g. to build a jar file

boot dist

Show help for a task, e.g. the target task

boot target -h

Run a single task and pipe the resulting file set to target/

boot less -- target --no-clean

Build, serve the target/public folder, and keep the server up with the wait task

boot build -- serve -d target/public -- wait