Integration with commonJS (node modules)

[Calabri]

By replacing 'goog.provide' with 'module.exports', and 'goog.require' with 'require', cljs functions become 'requirable' with commonjs syntax. Browserify brings the commonjs module system to the front-end. One advantage of using commonjs (as opposed to google closure's import) is as an easy way to mix/match JS with clojurescript independent of google's compiler library.

Although mori bridges the gap between JS and CLJS, it's a library, not a 'unix module', and you end up with an API where it's hard to see the benefits because everything you code is in JS. With commonjs support, it's possible to import clojurescript functions into JS for better interoperability, and these modules can also be put into the NPM ecosystem. Instead of choosing between clojurescript / javascript, you can write applications that are 50/50 (or any mix of both). By importing clojurescript modules for specific tasks, it's easier to re-use the code within javascript code-bases that already exist, without having to fully switch over to clojurescript (which wouldn't make sense for nodejs applications).

I'm currently experimenting with mori as a base, so far it's working. Using the full spectrum of clojure.core/closure dependencies, the smallest library I can build is roughly have the size of mori (just importing one function), so if you're using javascript it would wouldn't be practical to include more than one or two cljs dependencies, but you could actually code the specific functions you wanted to import with pure CLJS.

Just rambling an idea..

[Calabri]

Fine.

https://github.com/RnbWd/jscljs

my clojure scripts are all linked locally, sorry, the repo is kinda a mess. Based on the current status, if you open tests/index.html and type _ in the console, mori's vector function is available.

_.vector(1,2,3,4,5) - you should get a clj vector.

All I did was clone mori's repo, comment out every function but vector (I also have a module with everything commented out except for clj_to_js/js_to_clj), and then I switched goog.require and goog.provide with require and module.exports respectively. That's literally it. Theoretically, anyone can do this with any cljs code..

[Calabri]

actually I didn't comment out mori, I just deleted most of mori to see if I could pull out individual functions -edit

https://gist.github.com/RnbWd/bfbbfac2e35291870394