nREPL and ClojureScript: Demystifying Piggieback

🫧 Open on Bubbles I can’t carry it for you… but I can carry you! – Samwise Gamgee, on the virtues of piggyback If you’ve ever fired up a ClojureScript REPL from your editor and it just worked , there’s a decent chance Piggieback was quietly doing the heavy lifting behind the scenes. It’s one of those libraries that’s been around forever, that everyone in the CIDER world depends on, and that almost nobody actually understands. For years I counted myself firmly in the “almost nobody” camp. That changed recent