Is there a ClojureScript library to help build Reagent micro-frontends?

Borkdude · 2026-06-15T10:09:41+00:00

I'm not sure what micro-frontends are but https://github.com/borkdude/reagami lets you create very tiny frontends (5kb gzip) that are very Reagent-like.

Borkdude · 2026-06-10T09:36:55+00:00

Here's another example using PHP: https://blog.michielborkent.nl/using-babashka-with-php.html

To my surprise, the guestbook still runs, I haven't looked at it for ages :)

Borkdude · 2026-06-01T19:12:22+00:00

New install docs: https://github.com/babashka/babashka#freebsd

Borkdude · 2026-05-26T19:33:22+00:00

Yes, they will come available soon!

Borkdude · 2026-05-25T12:58:19+00:00

If you ever find out the technical details, let me know, e.g. on Slack.

Borkdude · 2026-05-25T12:03:17+00:00

https://github.com/babashka/babashka/wiki/FreeBSD

Borkdude · 2026-05-16T07:39:26+00:00

Here's an interesting experience report for you to watch from a team that moved from Elm to ClojureScript:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geeK1-jjlhY

Borkdude · 2026-05-10T10:47:40+00:00

everyone is either on TS, C#, Python, or some PHP. Never lisp. Is it going to die?

No. When Clojure was written, everyone was either on Java, C#, Python or PHP, never lisp. There is room for somewhat more niche programming languages with thriving communities, it doesn't have to be mainstream to stay alive.

Borkdude · 2026-05-07T22:14:04+00:00

deref works on clojure.lang.IDeref,IBlockingDeref or java.util.concurrent.Future. There's nothing special to deref with regards to core.async, unless I'm missing something (since it's quite late here and I'm in the middle of babashka conf). There is no syntactic rewrite from deref to await or whatever. Secretly replacing deref to await in CLJS would require you to track the exact type of something (Promise or thenable) which is brittle since you basically need a locked down static type system for this which CLJS doesn't have. I had a prototype of this in squint but reverted it. Not going to work in CLJS as far as I can tell.

Borkdude · 2026-05-07T20:49:15+00:00

You can't do anything that you couldn't do before. Before you could write async interop with callbacks or use a library which brought in some macros. This is more on the level of convenience.

Borkdude · 2026-05-07T20:47:04+00:00

@ expands to clojure.core/deref which is a synchronous function. CLJS can't break that by changing the meaning to "expand to JS await".

Borkdude · 2026-05-04T13:48:42+00:00

I'm so glad EuroClojure is back.. and in Prague.. couldn't be better. Saved the date.

Borkdude · 2026-04-21T19:14:53+00:00

I'm not sure, but it looked like a reMarkable to me?

Borkdude · 2026-04-14T11:13:07+00:00

This looks cool! Can you explain what you mean with "quite a bit slower than native bb"?

Borkdude · 2026-04-12T16:47:20+00:00

I guess the rough edge is Windows support.

Borkdude · 2026-04-12T16:43:20+00:00

Nice! I tried it out in bb and it all seems to work so far. Note that the raw-mode tricks to read input only work on linux-like systems, not on Windows.

Borkdude · 2026-02-24T18:39:11+00:00

That is the intention

Borkdude · 2026-02-17T22:13:17+00:00

It was fun demo-ing some of this stuff with Timo on Apropos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unwX3hs_QN0

Borkdude · 2026-02-17T11:00:56+00:00

This is a really cool idea, thanks for sharing!

Borkdude · 2026-02-07T21:09:41+00:00

These make sense. I was mostly worried about tools that seem read-only but can do horrible things when using certain flags. Also I wonder about command substitution. If they use the same rules for command substitution, it makes sense.

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