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by zrkrlc 1894 days ago
The problem with Clojure/Script is that there isn't a consensus on how to do things properly (IMHO, leiningen isn't transparent to beginners). Every language has its rituals, but as far as things go I'd pick Clojure/Script over npm-equipped JS any day, if only because it is such a blast to use once you do get things running correctly.

That said, I had to spend a couple of weeks agonising over my setup until I came across the newer and frankly, much simpler CLI tooling [1]. Today, I just manually create `deps.edn` and extend it as needed: pastebin.com/c8Ut928B

Setting up ClojureScript is a bit more complicated though, but not by much: pastebin.com/WdVyrd9T

Then I just run `npm install shadow-cljs react react-dom create-react-class` before doing `clj -M:shadow-cljs watch :client`, based on [2].

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[1]: clojure.org/guides/deps_and_cli

[2]: shadow-cljs.github.io/docs/UsersGuide.html