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Bruce Hauman - Developing ClojureScript With Figwheel

Bruce Hauman - Developing ClojureScript With Figwheel on HackerTube: recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 3 separate months, 2017–2022.

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Bruce Hauman presents Figwheel, a ClojureScript tool for live, interactive development with hot code reloading. He explains the main ideas, demonstrates how it works, and shares tricks for getting the most out of it.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN people point to it as a very visual demonstration of what hot-reloading and interactive development can offer, and as an example of a great dev tool pitch.

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“it's a very visual demonstration of what hot-reloading code and interactive development can bring”
— JamesLeonis, Aug 2017, in “Ask HN: Lispers: Which dialect of Lisp do you use and why?”

What HN commenters said

6 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.

JamesLeonisAug 2017Strongly recommends

If you're interested in Clojure, I _highly_ recommend /r/Clojure on Reddit. It's very active; several library devs, book authors, and core maintainers frequently post and comment. There's a weekly thread dedicated to new Clojure users ([Latest thread here][1]). The Clojure Slack[6] is even more active if you have a burning question. If you would like to dip your toes in the water, 4Clojure[2] is an online interactive Clojure Kata. There's also a (nearly) full REPL environment at Try Clojure[3] or repl.it[4]. The Clojure Cheatsheet[5] makes it easy to browse and discover the Clojure standard library, and IMHO is _so_ well organized! But the biggest part of Lisp is the interactive development. You really have to see it, and I love showing the [Bruce's Figwheel project presentation][7] because it's a very visual demonstration of what hot-reloading code and interactive development can bring. It also helps that he's doing Clojurescript in a live browser for web development. [1]: [link] [2]: [link] [3]: [link] [4]: [link] [5]: [link] [6]: [link] [7]: ▶ this video

in “Ask HN: Lispers: Which dialect of Lisp do you use and why?” · View on HN

lmilcinMay 2021Recommends

Sure. I use fighwheel. [link] Actually, when I develop with clojure, I typically have both backend and frontend running at the same time and I am concurrently modifying both applications without restarting them. This is way, way more convenient than having to restart application and then to bring it to a state to run your test. This is youtube video from which I learned about fighwheel: ▶ this video Have fun!

in “ClojureScript 1.10.866 Release” · View on HN

freshhawkJul 2017Recommends

I'm not sure if the parent did, but I followed what you were looking for and the answer is still "try clojure", perhaps more specifically it is "Try the Clojure libraries figwheel and devcards to do web stuff" but the push for immediate feedback and "interactive programming" is central for everyone. It's a community that took Bret Victor's Inventing on Principle talk to heart, already agreeing due to the REPL centric workflows that most people used. Bruce Hauman has some good talks about his tools, which are GUI application-centric and a joy to use [1][2][3] If you aren't doing web or native mobile GUI stuff then the default tools have immediate unit test/linting/spec compliance feedback triggered every time you save a file. Unless you mean you want a very simplified language, in which case you should look elsewhere. Clojure has definitely chosen the high power side of that trade-off, but this also allows some truly first class tools to be developed. [1] ▶ this video [2] [link] [3] [link] <- this one in particular is original and outstanding in my opinion

in “Show HN: Mesh IDE – a code editor that feels like a spreadsheet” · View on HN

swyxJun 2022Cites it

i also asked this on twitter so just putting some replies here: - Doug Engelbart [link] - Twilio [link] - Stripe - "7 lines of code" - Netlify - [link] - Heroku - [link] and git push heroku master - Cloudflare - [link] - Node ( [link] ) and Deno ( [link] ) - Firebase (reportedly) - [link] smaller companies/less impactful pitches that i still like - Redux [link] - Stackblitz [link] - Comm [link] - Mongodb [link] - Let's Encrypt [link] - Figwheel-Clojurescript ▶ this video - Svelte [link]

in “Ask HN: Best dev tool pitches of all time?” · View on HN

resurgeSep 2017Cites it

This is Bruce Hauman's dome (creator of the Clojure library Figwheel) I watched a video of the talk where this dome is mentioned last week. ▶ this video I was hoping there'd be some more info about the way he lives in general. Seeing from the outside picture he also seems to grow his own food.

in “A Frameless Geodesic Dome (2013)” · View on HN

TheSmokeJan 2017Cites it

here is my experience: - creating a project from scratch is easy: lein new reagent-frontend my-project. it creates a project from reagent-frontend template. you can build your app with lein cljsbuild auto or build a production build with lein release. - build time significantly drops, even with advanced optimizations, comparing to webpack. - both component and app state management becomes a lot easier thanks to reagent atoms. - not much of a big deal but hiccup templates make inline styling easier. - you get figwheel! [0] [1] [0] [link] [1] ▶ this video

in “A deep dive into ClojureScript reagent” · View on HN

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Functional programmingTesting, debugging & developer toolsWeb developmentfigwheelclojurescripthot reloadinginteractive programmingdeveloper tools