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If you’re using vim to write Clojure code, chances are that you’re using Tim Pope’s vim-fireplace plugin. It’s really great. It stars an nREPL session in the background for you and lets you evaluate a form inside of vim. It’s super fast because it keeps the session around and it’s one of my favorite things about writing Clojure.

Recently, vim-fireplace received support for piggieback. Piggieback is a layer on top of nREPL that gives you support for ClojureScript. This is really great because it gives you the ability to evaluate ClojureScript code in vim just like your normal Clojure code.

Alright, here is how to set it up:

project.clj

(defproject pig "0.1.0-SNAPSHOT"
  :description "FIXME: write this!"
  :url "http://example.com/FIXME"

  :dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.5.1"]
                 [com.cemerick/piggieback "0.1.3"]]

  :plugins [[lein-cljsbuild "1.0.2"]]
  :repl-options {:nrepl-middleware [cemerick.piggieback/wrap-cljs-repl]}

  :source-paths ["src"]

  :cljsbuild {
    :builds [{:source-paths ["src"]
              :compiler {
                :target :nodejs
                :optimizations :simple}}]})

Pretty standard stuff. We’re using the lein-cljsbuild plugin for automatic compilation, we set up the source path and a nodejs compile target.

Now you simply open a .cljs file and you can do your usual vim-fireplace magic. The first cpr (reload current buffer) command will connect to an nREPL instance and initialize the piggieback wrapper.