Support for NPM modules out of the box is a hot topic in the cljs community, imo things have greatly improved even in the past few months.

Checkout https://github.com/anmonteiro/lumo And https://andrearichiardi.com/blog/posts/lumo-npm-dependencies...

NPM basically does not work with the standard Clojurescript compiler. I would avoid mentioning this topic around newbies, as it will only result in frustration.

Try shadow-cljs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16866085 you want npm modules in ClojureScript and you get npm modules in your ClojureScript. If not, then I'm quite sure you can get help from thheller who created shadow-cljs.

I'll have to look at that. It may provide a solution to my problems.

Does shadow-cljs integrate well into an existing figwheel/reagent project?

I use shadow-cljs as a replacement of figwheel. shadow-cljs is quite powerful already, in development and bundling.

oh, its a _replacement_ for figwheel. Gotcha. In that case, I'll take a look and get it going.

Thanks!

Been working on a cljs project and took me a solid week to get npm integration working. The documentation is either wrong or incomplete on both the official site and the wikis for lein/boot.

Still, please try shadow-cljs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16866085 and join us on Slack.

Yep, that's what I ended up discovering and going with.

However, shadow-cljs REPL integration was also pretty hard to get working with my editor (spacemacs), because most of the tutorials assume you're using lein to build your project.

shadow-cljs is pretty dope though. Almost instantaneous rebuild times and basically no setup besides a small, understandable config file.

It's helpful to post doc problems / questions on the clojurescript-site issues so that it can be improved.

https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript-site/issues

i think the underlying problem is that the documentation is incomplete and/or outright incorrect.

CLJSJS was a life-saver for me, at least.

Work on this is still ongoing. Clojurescript had to upstream a lot of module-handling code into Google Closure to get it going, and older, non-Node/ES6 module libs will never work under advanced-mode compilation (e.g., polyfills).

I really had high hopes for Clojurescript but I tried many times to get my front-end finished in Reagent but the documentation was useless. In the end I turned to React and, with the help of a good, detailed video tutorial, I had it finished in a week. Ecosystem really matters and I find that Clojurescript, despite its innovations, is still too bits and pieces when it comes to just getting stuff done. I never thought I'd give-up on Clojurescript but eventually I did.