Luminus
A typical workflow for developing Clojure applications is to connect the editor to a REPL running an instance of the application. Luminus provides two ways to connect to the REPL.
With Leiningen
Starting the Application from the REPL
When you run the REPL in the project directory it will start in the user namespace located in the env/dev/clj/user.clj file. This namespace provides helper functions start, stop, and restart that are used to manage the state of the application components.
To start the HTTP server and any other components such as databases, run the start function:
(start)
Run the following command to start the HTTP server:
(mount/start #'<app>.core/http-server)
Connecting to the nREPL
Luminus also provides an embedded nREPL that can be used to connect the editor to a running instance of the server. A default nREPL port is set in dev-config.edn configuration file:
{:dev true
:port 3000
;; when :nrepl-port is set the application starts the nREPL server on load
:nrepl-port 7000}
When you run your application using lein run it will create a network REPL on the port 7000 and you will be able to connect your editor to it on localhost:7000. Note that when the NREPL_PORT environment variable is set then nREPL will also be available in production and can be used to inspect the application the same way you would in development.
Please see the deployment section for the instructions on enabling the nREPL for production.
With Boot
Starting the Application from the REPL
With Boot, running the HTTP server in the REPL requires a few extra steps. In the command line, run boot dev repl to start the REPL in the "dev" configuration. Then, in the REPL, run (in-ns 'user) followed by (load "user") to load the helper functions found in env/dev/clj/user.clj. Since you are already in the user namespace, you have immediate access to these functions. Now you can run (start) to run your application in the REPL.
