Overview
One pain point of REPL driven development is that even if it is possible to
change an application while it is running, if you want to experiment with a
new library it is need to add a new dependency to your project and restart the
REPL to use it, possibly breaking your flow.
Fortunately a new set of functions to alleviate this pain are in the works
and ready to be tested since Clojure 1.12.0-alpha2:
- add-lib: Given a lib that is not yet on the repl classpath, make it available by downloading the library if necessary and adding it to the classloader.
- add-libs: Given lib-coords, a map of lib to coord, will resolve all transitive deps for the libs together and add them to the repl classpath, unlike separate calls to add-lib.
- sync-deps: Calls add-libs with any libs present in deps.edn but not yet present on the classpath.
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