LYlynaghk·Sep 15, 2011
You're referring to Chris Granger's project; https://github.com/ibdknox/brepl ?
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brepl
The browser repl for ClojureScript
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3 sourcesI'm not sure exactly how this would be implemented, but the repl action would be to send your browser clojurescript to a server, which then compiles it, which then replies to you, which you then append to the dom in a script() (or, eval it).
This seems tricky, though, because it seems as though you'd need a to evaluate it within the context of the previously compiled environment, and ideally you would want to return /only/ the newly required code + libs. You wouldnt want to return code that re-initializes the dom, for example.
https://github.com/ibdknox/brepl has that repl implementation.
In Compiling Clojure to Javascript, pt. 2 -- Why No Eval?ClojureScript gets a REPL that drives the browser
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