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Bruce Hauman - Developing ClojureScript With Figwheel

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What it is

Bruce Hauman presents Figwheel, a ClojureScript tool for live, interactive development with hot code reloading. He explains the main ideas, demonstrates how it works, and shares tricks for getting the most out of it.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN people point to it as a very visual demonstration of what hot-reloading and interactive development can offer, and as an example of a great dev tool pitch.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2017, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “it's a very visual demonstration of what hot-reloading code and interactive development can bring”

    Visual demo of hot-reloading and interactive development.

    JamesLeonis, 2017-08 · Strong recommendation · in “Ask HN: Lispers: Which dialect of Lisp do you use and why?”

  2. “Bruce Hauman has some good talks about his tools, which are GUI application-centric and a joy to use”

    Talks on interactive tooling with figwheel.

    freshhawk, 2017-07 · Recommendation · in “Show HN: Mesh IDE – a code editor that feels like a spreadsheet”

  3. “This is youtube video from which I learned about fighwheel”

    Where the commenter learned figwheel.

    lmilcin, 2021-05 · Recommendation · in “ClojureScript 1.10.866 Release”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: figwheel, clojurescript, hot reloading, interactive programming, developer tools

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